Managing Personal Competencies

Iain S. Henderson and Martin Dowling

The primary aim of Managing Personal Competencies is to ensure that the student acquires generic competencies relating to personal effectiveness, and specific competencies relating to the key human resource functions of acquiring, maintaining and developing staff.

The generic competencies include:

  • self-awareness and reflection;
  • self-management;
  • communication;
  • leadership and influencing; and
  • managing the performance of others.

The competencies regarding HR functions include:

  • Competencies for people management: change management and teamworking.
  • Competencies relating to acquiring staff: human resource planning, recruitment and selection.
  • Competencies relating to maintaining and developing staff: learning and development, employee relations (negotiation, bargaining, discipline and grievance and dispute resolution).