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Meluk Competence Base

1. Meluk Competence Base

The concept of competencies has become important at both strategic and human resource level in the last decade. Competencies are not universal, they may differ accordingly to national cultures, industry cultures or cultures within individual organisations.
Hamel and Prahalad define core-competence as "a bundle of skills and technologies rather than a single distinct skill or technology".

The resource based view of the organisation identifies distinctive competence that may derive from the individual or team activity as well as knowledge, technical and market attributes and potential sources of exploitation and profitability. However there are two avenues for decision making, in most cases the strategy is developed which then dictates the requirements for certain competencies within the organisation. Alternatively existing competencies can be directed because of their distinctiveness to determine strategy.

Matsushita tends to identify the strategy, wh...

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