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| | | | | | | Core skills
ESA's Generic Competency ModelAt ESA, the word competency describes the blend of knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviours needed to carry out tasks successfully - the core skills that ESA requires from its personnel.
Ensuring that staff carry out assignments to the best of their ability is important, both for an individual’s job satisfaction and for the success of the organisation. As ESA is a space science and technology based organisation, the technical/professional skills of its staff are of prime importance to its overall success. In addition to technical competencies however, there are certain cognitive and behavioural competencies that are also needed to excel in a post.
ESA has designed a Generic Competency Model to help translate the organisations’ objectives and priorities into clear behavioural performance expectations for employees.
The model identifies four broad categories of behavioural skills:
- cognition (thinking)
- relations (interacting)
- corporate identity (being)
- actions (doing)
Each of these contains four specific skills. Which of these 16 skills apply to each post in the Agency depends on the nature and characteristics of the post in question.
Staff and management alike use the Generic Competency Model in human resources management activities, such as recruitment, performance assessment, self-assessment, professional development and career management.
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