The truth about best practices: what they are and how to apply them
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Efforts to learn the truth about best practices are being hampered mainly by three self-imposed paradoxes. These are the search for simple solutions for complex problems, the recognition of generalizable best practices that are neither generalizable nor best, and the search for guidance for the future from the past. A major mistake commonly made by those studying this issue is concluding that a seemingly successful process, program or policy is a best practice. What they fail to realize is that what is seen on the surface is only the manifestation of something much more basic within the company. A best practice is the result of a firm commitment to fundamental beliefs, attributes and strategies. A study of companies with the best human asset management practices indicates that they consistently manifest eight factors. These are values, culture, commitment, communication, partnering, collaboration, innovation and risk, and competitive passion.
Publication Name: Human Resource Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0090-4848
Year: 1997
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Taking the lead on professional standards
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Qualifications in personnel management are expected to become standardized as the field comes under the scrutiny of the Personnel Standards Lead Body. The program is part of the 'competence-based' National Vocational Qualifications system. The success of the Body in developing standards for competence-based quality will be greatly influenced by how it defines 'professional competence.' There are concerns that it may generate flawed standards because functional analysis, the method it uses in examining the issue of professional competence, is fundamentally erroneous. Apart from its inability to provide 'inference rules' that can guide the process of competence evaluation, functional analysis does not express the significant areas of professional competence nor does it address professional work's multifaceted nature. The Body should consider alternative methods if it is to develop truly effective standards.
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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Setting standards for the future
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UK moved another step closer to setting 'standards of occupational competence' upon the National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ). The new accreditation body was established after a government-sponsored study revealed the weaknesses of the UK's system of vocational qualifications. The NCVQ is the only agency authorized to accredit new qualifications. Proponents of this new approach to occupational qualifications expect it to result in the uniformity of qualifications and in pushing these qualifications on to a 'competence' basis. Implementation of the new system is not without problems. The biggest challenge it poses is the development of 'national competence standards.'
Publication Name: Personnel Management
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0031-5761
Year: 1992
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