Conclusion: is competency management a passing fad?

Lodge, Martin ORCID: 0000-0002-4273-6118, Page, Edward C. ORCID: 0000-0002-7117-3342 and Hood, Christopher (2005) Conclusion: is competency management a passing fad? Public Administration, 83 (4). pp. 853-860. ISSN 0033-3298

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Is competency management a passing fad; is it a catch-all term to cover diverse national patterns of development or a symptom of wider changes within bureaucracies? As the papers published here suggest, it is more likely to be a passing fad in Europe than the USA. Competency management addresses rather different agendas in different countries and while it does not embrace as diverse a collection of activities as 'new public management', there is substantial range in the issues it does address. European experience suggests competency is more likely to be ephemeral and concerned with repackaging rather than bringing something substantially new to personnel management in the upper reaches of civil services. Without taking too rosy a view of US experience, there may be a stronger case for arguing that contemporary competency management approaches there have brought something new to a longer standing debate in public and private management.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0033-3298
Additional Information:	© 2005 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Divisions:	Government Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	12 Jan 2010 12:14
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 22:54
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/26652

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