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Unit 2
Defining Competencies
Release 11i

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Objectives
At the end of this Unit you should be able to :
• Describe and create competencies
• Determine why rating scales are used
• Describe the different methods of measuring
behavior using rating scales and proficiency levels
• Set up a rating scale
• Set up competence requirements
• Copy competencies from the business group,
organization, job, or position level
• Group competencies

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Overview
This Unit concentrates on the use of competencies
and rating scales within Career Management

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Lesson 1
Creating Competencies and Defining
Rating Scales
Release 11i

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Overview
• Rather than providing you with predefined
competencies that may be too prescriptive or too
general, Oracle HRMS enables you to develop your
own.
• Competencies can be grouped by the methods
used to improve them, such as trainable
competencies. Alternatively, they can be grouped
by their use in the company, such as core or
technical.
• The flexibility of Oracle HRMS enables you to
structure your competencies and design your
methods of measurement to meet the needs of
your company.

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Common Competence Framework
Virtual Job Market
Recruit applicantRecruit applicant
for positionfor position
MatchMatch
employee foremployee for
vacancyvacancy
• A common framework for describing and
assessing competencies speeds the deployment
process.
• Can match employees and applicants with
opportunities that arise across the whole company

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Competencies
KnowledgeKnowledge
AttitudeAttitudeSkillSkill
AttributeAttribute
• A competence can be defined as the following:
– Knowledge: for example, knowing the names
of all the rivers in China
– Skill: for example, being able to type to a
certain standard
– Attitude: (difficult to measure)
– Attribute: for example, the absence of color
blindness (be careful not to discriminate)

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Competence Profiles
• A competence profile is the list of competencies
held by a person and the level of proficiency they
display in these competencies.
• It is the basis for all analysis of competence
information, including suitability matching and
succession planning.
• Competencies can be delivered at a specific
proficiency level through training activities. This
refers to any planned undertaking that improves a
student’s competencies (qualifications,
experience, and so on).

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Polling Question
List any competencies that you may want to develop
for your company.

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Measuring Behavior using Competencies
• Two methods of measuring
– Individual method which uses proficiency
levels
– General method which uses rating scales
which have to be created
• It is possible to use both methods of measurement
– For example, you can use a general method for
core competencies and an individual method
for specific job and position competencies

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Rating Scales
• Rating scales are used to describe competencies
in a general way.
• Instead of defining proficiency levels for individual
competencies, you use a general rating scale and
text for measuring several competencies.
• You can create general rating scales to determine:
– Proficiency
– Performance
– Weighting
• These ratings are the ones seen and used in the
assessment process.

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Rating Scales
• Proficiency
– Identifies how a person exhibits a competence.
For example, a person is proficient at drilling a
hole.
• Performance
– Identifies whether the person has achieved the
proficiency. For example, can they drill well or
not.
• Weighting
– Identifies the level of importance of a
competence.

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Rating Scales
• You can make one rating scale the default if you
are going to link this rating scale to many
competencies.
• You can add attachments to the rating scales, if
required
– For example, you can attach a competence
description or a video of the skill

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Competence Measurement
- Individual Method
• Proficiency Levels
– If most of your competencies within your
enterprise are comprised of proficiency levels
unique to individual competencies, you might
want to create competencies with their unique
proficiency levels. You would therefore have a
number of equivalent systems for measuring
performance
– The following slides illustrates the competence
‘Erecting and Dismantling Scaffolding’ using
the individual method to structure your
competencies. Notice the proficiency levels
and behavioral indicators

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Individual Method with Proficiency Levels
1 - Novice
– Can provide assistance, as a member of a
team, in the general fetching and carrying of
scaffolding components

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2 - Beginner
– Can, as a member of a team, erect and
dismantle basic scaffolds constructed from
preformed aluminum components

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3 - Intermediate
dismantle scaffolds constructed from
preformed steel components

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4 - Advanced
dismantle basic tube and clip scaffolds

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5 - Expert
dismantle advanced tube and clip scaffolds

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Competence Measurement
- General Method
• Rating Scales
– Alternatively you can use the general method
of measurement to structure your
competencies.
– For example, you might decide to use a
general method of measuring ‘expertise’, such
as Expert, Intermediate and Novice. To do this,
you could create a general rating scale called
Expertise and hold the generic proficiency
levels here.

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General Method with Rating Scales
• General Rating Scale for Expertise
LowLow
HighHigh
• 1 = Novice1 = Novice
• 2 = Beginner2 = Beginner
• 3 = Intermediate3 = Intermediate
• 4 = Advanced4 = Advanced
• 5 = Expert5 = Expert

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Best Method of Measurement
• Use the individual method if most of the
competencies within your enterprise comprise of
proficiency levels unique to individual
competencies.
• Use a general rating scale if a number of
competencies within your enterprise have a
common set of proficiency levels. You can then
ensure consistency between measurements.
• You can, of course, use a mixture of both, but
whatever you use, ensure that you give high
numbers to high ratings. You need to do this, for
example, to ensure any bar charts you produce are
useful.

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Method of Measurement
Proficiency levelsProficiency levels
Competency levelsCompetency levels
(Mix and match)(Mix and match)
Total flexibility
Calculate assessmentCalculate assessment
scoresscores
• ProficiencyProficiency
• PerformancePerformance
• WeightingWeighting

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Common System of Measurement
Behavioral indicatorsBehavioral indicators
CompetenciesCompetencies
Proficiency rating scaleProficiency rating scale
• If you decide to use a common system of
measurement in your company, use the same
rating scale measurements throughout. For
example, if you use rating levels 1 to 3 for one
rating scale, stick to this scale if you set up many
scales with different proficiency levels.

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Competence Proficiency Levels
• Once you set up proficiency levels for a
competence, Oracle HRMS retrieves the correct
proficiency level when you perform any of the
following tasks:
– Set up competence requirements
– Create or update a competence profile
– Perform an evaluation as part of an appraisal
• Setting up proficiency levels saves time and also
ensures that you always select the correct
proficiency level for the task that you are
performing.

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Instructor Demonstration 1-a
The purpose of this demonstration is to show how to
create a rating scale and a competency. Observe as
your instructor demonstrates how to set up a rating
scale and create a competency.

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Practice 1-a
• Following the Instructor demonstration set up a
Rating Scale and a Competency using the
information supplied.
• Prefix the information with your initials.

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Practice 1-a
Navigation Path
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Navigate to the Rating Scale Window in US Super
HRMS Manager Responsibility:
(N) Career Management > Rating Scales
(N) Career Management > Competencies

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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
• Describe and create competencies
• Determine why rating scales are used
• Describe the different methods of measuring
behavior using rating scales and proficiency levels
• Set up a rating scale

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Lesson 2
Defining Competence Requirements and
Grouping Competencies
Release 11i

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Overview
• To ensure your company meets current and future
goals, identify your competence requirements:
– Identify the competencies that people within
your company need to possess and exhibit in
order to meet your business goal.
• Start by defining your core competencies that
every employee must possess if your company is
to meet its goals.
• Competencies can be grouped by the methods
used to improve them, such as trainable
competencies. Alternatively, they can be grouped
by their use in the company, such as core or
technical.

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Setting Up Competence Requirements
• You can define your company’s competence
requirements at the following levels:
– One-time profiles (for suitability matching)
– Business Group
– Organization
– Job
– Position
One-time profiles
Business group
Organization
Job
Position

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Defining Competence Requirements
• Defining your competence requirements enables
you to devise an appropriate evaluation procedure
as part of your appraisal process and evaluate
individuals against the competencies for selection,
qualification or training and development
purposes.

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Core Competencies
• Defining your core competencies might be the first
stage in developing a competence approach.
• Core competencies are the competencies that are
required by every person to enable your enterprise
to meet its goals.
– For example, the core competencies required
to meet the goal ‘greater penetration in the
applications market’, might include strategic
thinking, quality orientation and customer
awareness.
• You define core competencies at Business Group
or organization level

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One Time Profiles
• Not only can you create profiles for organizations,
jobs and positions, but you can also create one
time profiles for many purposes.
– For example, you can create one time profiles
for a variety of activities, such as team
building, by using the Suitability Matching
function. You can search for candidates and
rank them using this functionality.

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Business Group and Organization
Competencies
• Competencies held at Business Group or
organization level only need to be defined once.
• They are then automatically displayed each time
you select a specific organization or job, saving
you from having to select them each time.
• Competencies that are held at high-level are easier
to maintain.

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Job and Position Competencies
• Once you have defined your enterprise’s core
competencies, you might want to define individual
job and position competencies later.
– For example, C++ programming, SQL*Plus,
and such.
• If you are holding competencies at position level
and within the context of an organization or job,
when you later select a position, the relevant
competencies for the organization, job and
position are inherited and displayed.
• Alternatively, you can hold competencies at
position level and not within the context of an
organization or job.

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Essential Competencies and Suitability
Matching
• You can identify whether a competence is
essential to an organization, job or position, or
whether it is optional.
• If you indicate that a competence is essential,
suitability matching will only retrieve the people
who possess the competence at the specified
proficiency level.

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Grades and Competencies
• You can identify different competencies for
different grades, each with their accompanying
proficiency levels.
• This enables you to keep a history of the
competencies for an organization, job, position or
grade over time.
• You don’t have to define requirements for each
grade; if you leave the grade blank, it will apply
across all levels.

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Competence Copying
• You can copy core competencies and proficiency
levels to the organization, job or position, saving
you time.
• You can then make changes to the competencies,
if required.
– For example, change the proficiency levels,
enter a grade, or change the dates between
which the competence is valid.
• You can also copy competencies and proficiency
levels from organizations, jobs or positions to
other organizations, jobs or positions. This
enables you to quickly and easily define your
enterprise’s competence requirements

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Grouping Competencies
• Grouping competencies can be useful for:
– Advertising a vacancy and including all
hireable competencies in the job
announcement
– Creating competencies for a team
– Reporting purposes
– Enabling easier access to particular
competencies
• You can also group a competence into more than
one competence type. For example, Oral Skills can
be grouped into Management Skills and
Interpersonal Relationships competence types.

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Competency Types
• Oracle HRMS enables you to create competence
types and to group related competencies by type
• This flexibility enables you to create competencies
displaying complex behaviors, such as
management skills, or to split management skills
into several competencies, such as:
– Communication skills
– Presentation skills
– Oral skills
• The degree to which competencies are grouped is
your choice.

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Competence Types
Management skillsManagement skills
ComplexComplex
behaviorsbehaviors
SimpleSimple
behaviorsbehaviors
CommunicationCommunication
skillsskills
PresentationPresentation
skillsskills
OralOral
skillsskills

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Instructor Demonstration 2-a
copy competences. Observe as your instructor
demonstrates how to copy competences.

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Practice 2-a
Navigation Path
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Navigate to the Competence Requirements Window in
US Super HRMS Manager:
(N) Career Management > Competence Requirements

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Instructor Demonstration 2-b
copy a competency type. Observe as your instructor
demonstrates how to copy a competency type.

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Practice 2-b
• Following the Instructor demonstration set up a
competency type using the information supplied.
• Prefix the competency with your initials.

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Practice 2-b
Navigation Path
NN
SS
EEWW
Navigate to the Competencies Window in US Super
HRMS Manager Responsibility:
(N) Career Management > Competence Type

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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
• Set up competence requirements
• Copy competencies from the business group,
organization, job, or position level
• Group competencies

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