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Patrick Duffy - Competency Development: Curse or Cure?, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Competency Development: Curse or Cure?

A Capability-First Guide for HR Management

Av Patrick Duffy

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Competenciesare everywhere. Capability is not.Organizationsinvest heavily in competency frameworks. They embed them into hiring,performance management, leadership development, culture programs, andprofessional standards. And yet, despite their ubiquity, competencies remainone of the least examined and least governed tools in organizational life.CompetencyDevelopment: Curse or Cure? asks a toughquestion: has competency modeling become the answer to the wrong problem?Drawingon organization science, human performance theory, and real-world practice,this book challenges the way competencies are defined, modeled, assessed, andgoverned. It shows how competencies frequently drift into symbolic language,cultural enforcement, and performative compliance-while failing to explain orimprove actual performance. Butthis isn't an anti-competency book. It's a capability-first guide that showswhen competencies genuinely matter, when they don't, and how they must bepositioned inside a disciplined understanding of how organizations really work.It introduces a clear domain architecture for modeling competencies, explainswhy most assessment practices fall short, and sets out how competency systemscan be governed so they remain useful rather than becoming institutional"zombies." Thisbook replaces enthusiasm with judgment, and frameworks with evidence. If youcare less about having competencies and more about buildingreal capability, this book is for you.
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Dr. Patrick Duffy is an organization scientist, advisor, and author specializing in organization capability, enterprise governance, and workforce performance. He is the originator of a systematic framework for measuring, designing, and governing organization capability as a foundation for enterprise effectiveness, productivity, and institutional performance.With more than 30 years of experience across government, business, and the nonprofit sector, he has worked with and advised senior leaders on strategy execution, organizational design, workforce capability, structural reform, and performance improvement. His work focuses on diagnosing capability constraints within organizational systems and translating organizational science into practical operating models that improve measurable performance.Dr. Duffy holds a doctorate and MPhil in organization science, an MBA from Cardiff University, an MSc from Bangor University, a postgraduate diploma from the London School of Economics, and an MA from the University of Leicester. His academic research includes a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Business and Public Administration (2025), where he proposed an empirical methodology for evaluating organization capability and its relationship to organizational effectiveness and productivity.He is the author of a body of work on organization capability, workforce performance, and enterprise management, including Organization Capability: Define, Measure, Govern; Measuring Work and Productive Capacity; The HR Paradox; Culture System; and Competency Development: Curse or Cure?. His books establish organization capability as a measurable executive responsibility and provide evidence-based frameworks used by leaders to design effective organizations, strengthen workforce capability, and improve enterprise execution.

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