Wednesday, 21 September 2016

United Nations Competencies for the future

"It is my hope that competencies will provide us with shared language for talking, in concrete terms, about high performance and managerial excellence. I believe that a shared view of the standards we are striving to achieve will assist us in our continuing efforts to prepare the Organization to meet the challenges of the 21st century."
                                                                               Kofi Annan
                                                                               Secretary - General

Introduction to the competencies:

In "Building the Future", the Secretary - General has indicated that the organization's greatest strength- and the key to our success - is the quality of out staff and managers. He has stressed that, to capitalized on this strength, we need to create an organizational culture and environment that enables staff to contribute to their maximum potential. Experience in other organization has shown that  when seeking to create a new culture and build new human resources capacity for the future, it is important to define organizational core competencies - the combination of the skill, attributes and behaviors which are essential for all staffs - as well as the additional managerial competencies required by all those who manage others. Once organizational competencies have been defined, they can be used  as a based on which to build and strengthen other human resources system such as recruitment, placement, deployment and performance appraisal.  

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