PROPOSAL OF EMPLOYEE COMPETENCY IMPROVEMENT

Employee’s competencies represent the most powerful tool that leads to an
improvement in business. In a changing economic and educational environment which is
characterized by global competitive market knowledge is importance of workers developing
considered like the corner stone. The world is going through many global changes. The
most important changes are informatization, innovation, integration globalization. There is a
requirement to identify and describe those competencies that must be applied in many
employments and have to allow successfully to overcome the changes. The aim of this
paper is to explain and characterize the system leading to a continuous competency
improvement. The proposed system of continuous improvement represents a mechanism
consisting of several cooperating elements, methods and procedures application of which
will be achieved competency improvement in the company. The system is suitable for every
company which wants to improve the employee competencies. System of improving
employee competencies can be created for specific selected positions at every level in the
company and for the company as a whole. Creation of competency model, identification of
competency list is not easy. There exist procedures to correctly identify competencies and
develop an appropriate competency model. The system of endless competency
improvement has to be implemented on the PDCA cycle principle according to Deming.

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