Management of Employee Competencies in Resource Management of an Enterprise

The issue of competency management is inextricably linked to the effective functioning of the company. Proper resource management determines the achievement of the company's objectives. Responsibility for the implementation of the entrusted activities and their effects lies with the employees, while the management staff is responsible for planning the organization and control of these activities. With the increasing importance of employee competences, information about access to them and its costs is the most important information in the implementation of the company's strategy. Detailed analysis of needs for employees' competences in the enterprise, comparing this data with current tasks and plans for development is a factor as important as access to financial or information resources. Consideration of employee competencies takes place today based on the balancing of resources and manages competencies of employees. The article presents the research method and preliminary results of modeling of employee competence management in the context of system analysis, effectiveness of achieving goals and sustainable competence management to improvement of human potential. 80 companies representative of the Wielkopolska region took part in the research. The activities related to personnel management were analyzed, paying particular attention to the processes of identifying the company's competency needs, methods of employee recruitment, improvement of the employee potential and building the career path. The basic research problems that were raised in the article are examining the relationship between increasing the competitiveness of the company's activities and the applied methods of personnel management. The first part of the article presents various conditions of activities related to personnel management and identification of competence needs based on literature. The main part of the chapter describes examples of activities indicating the possibility of a model approach to competency management, taking into account preventive personnel management and the resource management approach to business management. A great emphasis was placed on the fact that objective identification of requirements for the workplace is a foundation for management of competences of future employees. Developing the model which describes the relationship between methods of staff management and improvement of enterprise's competitiveness was implemented, as an experiment, in examined enterprises. The utility of using a preventive approach to personnel management was confirmed by the examined enterprises. The premise for the authors of the article, to apply the resource approach in personnel management, was the great similarity between the "market offer of competence" presented by potential employees and the classical resources (raw materials, information, energy) needed in the production process.