Competence

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