Mortimer says trusts are investing in support staff to meet the core competencies required by the new care certificate, which all care workers will have to achieve before they can work unsupervised.
In a swipe at David Cameron's plans for a renegotiation and in/out referendum by 2017, Blair will call on pro-Europeans to "make the debate more than about the repatriation of certain competencies and rules".
In order to achieve the maximum pay for the relevant band, members of staff have to develop skills and competencies.
Then you try to find out the raw material and the competencies.
There are techniques to try to find out their competencies, but I think it's become like an arms race, with interviewees knowing the tools you use to learn their competencies, and they prepare for them.
A former executive of Blue Circle, a British cement maker, once said that his company diversified into lawn mowers in the 1980s (it bought the Qualcast brand) on no firmer grounds than "your garden is next to your house".Today, the focus among manufacturing industries is on "core competencies".
It should set out the EU's mission in simple language, clarify for befuddled voters the role and responsibilities of its institutions, and draw a clear distinction between supranational and national competencies.
But there is a problem with this theory, too: it implies that some firms will grow faster than others over long periods, because they possess durable competencies that are difficult to imitate.But that is not so.
The two business academics wrote Core competencies are the collective learning in the organisation, especially how to co-ordinate diverse production skills and integrate multiple streams of technologies...core competence is communication, involvement and a deep commitment to working across organisational boundaries...core competence does not diminish with use.
Porter had turned strategic thinking back in the direction of Frederick Taylor; Prahalad and Hamel changed that direction by several degrees.The drive to identify core competencies moved in line with the growing popularity of outsourcing.
The exams did not test for modern competencies such as awareness of foreign affairs, science and technology (the study of languages was discouraged).
