Human Resources Strategy and Decisions Research Papers (original) (raw)

In recent decades, several definitions of competency have been presented by prominent thinkers and scholars of this field, each of them deals with the competency from a certain angle and expressed different dimensions. Furthermore, the competency approach in human resource management (HRM) is not a new trend, and the subject of competence is a very old subject matter. On the contrary, human resource competence is one of the most important issues of any organization, which includes diverse, attractive and, at the same time, sophisticated topics. Today, due to the dramatic changes in the field of human resource management and the trend of managers to meritocracy in the organization, the planning of an organization based on competency has a special place. Different studies in this field show that the necessity to pay attention to the mission perspective, strategy, organizational goals and structure will be an integral part in the successful assignment of human resources and, without regard to this, the organization's approach cannot be determined. The use of human resource competency models in multiple construction projects requires a major paradigm, which in HRM literature refers to the competency-based human resource management (CBHRM), and changes the thinking of human resource managers across individuals and organizations, generally. This competency-based management approach is a coherent approach for managing human capital in the long-term, based on a common set of competency models related to the macro strategies of each project in this field. In this paper, the researcher initially reviewed the diversity of conceptual framework and components of competency models in the construction projects. Then, the competency models of the project manager, civil engineer, and construction foreman and worker are identified in project-oriented organizations. At the end of the research, a set of competencies of professional, ethical, cultural and social behaviour is presented in a variety of competency models.