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Competence (polyseme) Competence (also called ''competency'' or ''capability''Leonard-Barton, Dorothy. (1992). ''doi:10.1002/smj.4250131009, Core capabilities and core rigidities: A paradox in managing new product development.'' Strategic Management Journal. Vol. 13 ...

, capacity or ability to perform effectively Competence or competency may also refer to: *

Competence (human resources) Competence is the set of demonstrable personal characteristics or KSAOs (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other characteristics) that enable job performance at a high level with consistency and minimal difficulty. Competency in human resources ...

, ability of a person to do a job properly ** Competence-based management, performance-oriented organizational operation **

Core competency A core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel.Prahalad, C.K. and Hamel, G. (1990)The core competence of the corporation", Harvard Business Review (v. 68, no. 3) pp. 79–91. It can be define ...

, management concept of identifying the basis of competitiveness in an industry *

Competency-based learning Competency-based learning or competency-based education is a framework for teaching and assessment of learning. It is also described as a type of education based on predetermined "competencies," which focuses on outcomes and real-world performance ...

, framework for teaching and assessment of learning * Social competence, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation ** Cultural competence, set of behaviours or social skills ** Cross-cultural competence, set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations ** Cultural competence in healthcare, health care services that are sensitive and responsive to the needs of diverse cultures *

Competence (law) In United States and Canadian law, competence concerns the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings or transactions, and the mental condition a person must have to be responsible for his or her decisions or acts. Comp ...

, ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the person is engaged ** Competency evaluation (law), the means used to determine if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial ** EU competences, a model for subsidiarity within the European Union * Competence (geology), degree of resistance of rocks to deformation in terms of mechanical strength * Natural competence, ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA *

Communicative competence The concept of communicative competence, as developed in linguistics, originated in response to perceived inadequacy of the notion of linguistic competence. That is, communicative competence encompasses a language user's grammatical knowledge of s ...

, broad linguistic internalized knowledge of a language and its usage *

Linguistic competence In linguistics, linguistic competence is the system of unconscious knowledge that one has when they know a language. It is distinguished from linguistic performance, which includes all other factors that allow one to use one's language in practic ...

, system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language * Conscious competence, a psychological model of learning

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