Organisations have long recognised the importance of developing a competency framework and aligning and developing their employees’ competencies with these.
SHL has developed the Universal Competency Framework (UCF) following many years of research.
01 Oct 03 Unravelling the Great Eight (130 KB, pdf)
This paper provides an interview with SHL's Professor Dave Bartram who talks about how SHL has developed the Great Eight Competency Framework and how organisations are using this as a basis to structure competencies and match people to the right jobs.
01 Apr 03 The Great Eight Competencies: Meta-Analysis using a Criterion-Centric Approach to Validation (93 KB, pdf)
The paper presents a criterion-centric approach to validation. It argues that the workplace behaviors or competencies we are interested in predicting can usefully be defined in terms of eight broad factors: the Great Eight.
01 Jan 03 Let’s Turn Validation on its Head (421 KB, pdf)
This paper argues that we should focus more on performance at work rather than our predictors of it, and presents a new approach to validation which uses the framework of the SHL Great Eight competency factors.
01 Jan 03 The Great Eight as a Framework for Validation Research (399 KB, pdf)
The Great Eight competencies provide a comprehensive coverage of work-related behaviours and provide a generalisable framework for both performance assessment and performance prediction.
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