What is (or should be) the difference between competency modeling and traditional job analysis?

Human Resource Management Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 53-63

  Sanchez, Juan I ^a   Levine, Edward L ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competency modeling; Job analysis; Strategic work analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849099438     PISSN: 10534822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrmr.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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