"A competency is an underlying characteristic of the person that leads to or causes effective or superior performance."

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“is a process for encoding quantitative information.”

“Thematic analysis is a process for encoding quantitative information. The encoding requires an explicit "code". This may be a list of themes; a complex model with themes, indicators, and qualifications that are causally related; or something in between these two forms. A theme is a pattern found in the information that at minimum describes and organizes the possible observations and at maximum interprets aspects of the phenomenon. A theme may be identified at the manifest level or at the latent level . The themes may be initially generated inductively from the raw information or generated deductively from theory or prior research.”

“used as part of many qualitative method, considers that is not a separate method but something to be used to assist the researcher in the search of insight.”

“The Competent Manager: A Model for Effective Performance offers an empirical, total system approach that determines which characteristics of managers enable them to be effective in various management jobs.”

“Understanding the concept of competency is a prerequisite to understanding his integrated model of management.”

“The result of a job element analysis is a weighted list of characteristics that managers perceive as important in distinguishing superior from average performers, and those characteristics required by anyone in the job.”

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