COMPETENCE BASED HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT SOLUTION.

Large organizations often encounter difficulties in human resource (HR)development and effective assignment since they lack unified criteria for evaluation of the employees. Evaluation of work results does not provide enough information for the employee development. Evaluation of a large number of employees is time consuming and requires substantial resources, and it is not being used regularly. Personalized development is hard to provide, therefore organizations turn to less effective group development. Organizations do not use the knowledge of employees enough to achieve their strategic goals and gain competitive advantages. Use of elearning is limited and is valid for a few selected goals only. Finding a solution for these problems may improve the HR management process in the organizations and allow achieving better business results. In order to deal with these problems, the authors propose competences as unified measurements for employees. The acquired employee competences are identified by using automated evaluation solutions. The competence gap is calculated and used for employee development by creating individualand group development plans. Development solutions could be classroom training, e-learning, mentoring etc. The competence management solution will be supported by an information technology (IT) system, which should be integrated with other IT systems. In the future development of a system prototype and its validation in business environment is planned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]