A study about competence at work and new organizational paradigms based on the IMBA-Model

Abstract

This research arises from reflections on theoretical and practical skills for work, specifically, appropriate skills and ideal for employees to achieve organizational objectives and their relationship with the definitions and uses of the concept under the model IMBA on working skills (Integration of persons with disabilities in the labor market), that brings definitions of competence and its mode of administration in the pursuit of appropriate people to their jobs that were the starting point of this study. Some questions were mapped based on current theory and the project itself nominated for this research, summarized as follows: questions about the changes in the workplace, the concept of competence and its insertion into the new paradigms and organizational form of identification and operationalization of skills at the individual level. After a theoretical approach through contributions of various kinds and especially from the IMBA project, we applied a questionnaire and an interview with the matters referred, whose treatment had qualitative data collected for subsequent analysis. It was possible to identify specific skills relevant to each group of employees surveyed in the organization and their perceptions of these employees on how to select these skills. As the project took an IMBA mapping skills in a real work situation addressed. The concept, as described and IMBA worked on the project can be translated into reality and helped the local organizational skills mapping and analysis by participating employees. It can be argued that the study achieved the goal of relating the issue of skills, from the analysis of a real organization with the tools of the IMBA model.