Competence

Look up competence, competent, incompetence, or incompetent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Broad concept article:

• Competence (polyseme), capacity or ability to perform effectively

Competence or competency may also refer to:

• Competence (human resources), ability of a person to do a job properly
  • Competence-based management, performance-oriented organizational operation
  • Core competency, management concept of identifying the basis of competitiveness in an industry
• Competency-based learning, framework for teaching and assessment of learning
• Social competence, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation
  • Cultural competence, set of behaviours or social skills
  • Cross-cultural competence, set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations
  • Cultural competence in healthcare, health care services that are sensitive and responsive to the needs of diverse cultures
• Competence (law), ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the person is engaged
  • Competency evaluation (law), the means used to determine if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial
  • EU competences, a model for subsidiarity within the European Union
• Competence (geology), degree of resistance of rocks to deformation in terms of mechanical strength
• Natural competence, ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA
• Communicative competence, broad linguistic internalized knowledge of a language and its usage
• Linguistic competence, system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
• Conscious competence, a psychological model of learning

• Incompetence (disambiguation)
• Aptitude
• Behavior
• Behaviorism
• Skill

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