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This paper describes the competency-based management framework set in the context of the national training agenda and the move toward competency-based training. The framework uses competencies to describe administrative and clerical work across the Western Australian public sector at salary levels 1 to 8. The competencies were formulated from research which identified the skills and knowledge currently being used at each level.

The framework was developed by the Public Service Commission of Western Australia, the Civil Service Association and the Department of Productivity and Labour Relations as the basis of a major government structural efficiency initiative. The framework will provide a competency-based approach to management of all human resource functions across CSA-covered areas of the public sector.

The paper describes:

. the background to competency-based management;

. the framework's consistency with national and state competency initiatives;

. generic units and elements of competency which have been developed for levels 1 to 8;

. various examples of application. Show less