Competency Mapping as a Strategic HR Tool in Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Study

--Anuja Johri

Today’s corporate world is full of competition, where with changes in the external environment, the organizations have to face new problems and challenges. To cope with the changing environment and to create a competitive advantage for themselves, the organizations have to value and develop their human resources. So, it has become imperative for them to identify the characteristics and behavior of human resources that would lead them to sustain in this competitive era. Such behaviors are called ‘competency’, and to identify these competencies, the organizations go through the process of competency mapping. Emphasizing this, the present study explores and analyzes the process of competency mapping, i.e., how the organizations implement the process, and tries to find out how competency mapping process is used strategically by the organizations to achieve results and commitment by the employees. To analyze the process of competency mapping, a survey was conducted in 10 manufacturing companies in Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) area of Pune that were implementing the process of competency mapping.

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Regional Innovation System and Industrial Clusters: A Case of Sports Goods Cluster in Jalandhar, India

--Priya Jhamb

The concept of innovation has always been found to be an important source of dynamic growth and structural transformation. The past few decades have witnessed the growing interest of academicians and policy makers in the area of innovation. This paper is an attempt to examine the innovation pattern and identify the factors determining the innovativeness of firms located in the sports goods cluster in Jalandhar, India. Factor analysis is applied to find out the small set of uncorrelated variables and to replace the large set of correlated variables. Principal component analysis through orthogonal rotation with varimax method is used for extracting the factors. The three factors found to be affecting the innovativeness of sports goods cluster in Jalandhar are networking, internal characteristics of firms and presence of competitors.

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The Effect of Role Overload and Role Ambiguity on Job Performance of IT Professionals in India

--Vandana Singh Gahlan and Khujan Singh

The present study examines the relationship between job performance and role overload and role ambiguity of Information Technology (IT) professionals in India. Data related to the variables were collected with the help of a standardized questionnaire from 400 IT professionals in India. The statistical analysis of the data reveals that IT professionals perceive high level of role overload and role ambiguity. Further, correlation analysis reveals that role overload and role ambiguity are significantly related to job performance, while multiple regression shows that role overload and role ambiguity are significant predictors of job performance.

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Changed Job Market: The Art of Successfully Navigating Through Job Interviews

--GRK Murty

As the youngsters become eligible to migrate from campuses to the ‘real’ world of work, the daunting task of facing the recruiters for pocketing a paying job stares at them menacingly. Today, recruiting has become so dynamic a field that new trends are evolving as a matter of routine. And securing a job in a sluggish economy is all the more challenging. It is therefore, essential for the prospective candidates to hone up their skills to make a better presentation of themselves so that the recruiter perceives them as having all that is needed to succeed at work.

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