Cover -- Title page -- Contents -- A. The Competency Movement -- Definitions and concepts -- The emergence of the competency movement -- Assessment -- B. Added Value in Human Resources Management: An Analysis of the Competency Management Process -- Human resources management and added values -- The process of competency development across different organisational levels -- Conclusions -- 1. HRM Competency Frameworks in the British Civil Service -- Background -- The survey -- A competency framework for the senior civil service -- Evaluating old and new competency frameworks -- Discussion -- 2. Competency Management in Belgium: The Flemish and Federal Governments on the Move -- Competency management in the Flemish administration -- Federal government: the Copernican revolution -- Discussion -- 3. Competency-based Management in the Dutch Senior Public Service -- The Dutch senior public service -- Competencies -- Implementation and applications of the SPS competencies -- Competency-based management in the SPS: Today and tomorrow -- Appendix: All 42 behavioural aspects of SPS competencies -- 4. Competency Assessment in Finnish Higher Education -- Academic competencies -- Academic competency assessment -- Case study: assessing academic competencies in the University of Helsinki -- Discussion -- 5. The Competency Dimension of Leadership: A Study of Top Managers in Swedish Public Administration -- Leadership -- Concepts and theoretical frameworks -- A study of top managers in the Swedish public administration -- Discussion -- 6. Modest Beginnings for Competency Management in German Public Services: Developing Competencies for already Competent Lawyers? -- The exceptional situation of the German public sector -- New competencies for the modernisers in the German public sector -- Competency management in the state of Schleswig-Holstein -- Conclusion.

7. What Competency Management in the French Civil Service? -- The competency debate in French enterprises -- General civil service status: different from but not necessarily contradictory to a competency-based approach -- Competency-based frameworks -- Managing learning capacities: the case of state civil engineers -- Recognising competencies in traditional employment: the case of integration of young employees in local authorities -- Conclusion -- 8. The Competencies Required in Public Management: A Case Study in Italy -- Developments in the process of governing and public administration systems -- Implications and consequences for competencies in public administration practice -- Changing competencies in public administration practice: An empirical study -- Worker perceptions of competencies -- Conclusion -- 9. Competencies for Countries in Transition: A Case Study of the Polish Civil Service -- The conceptual framework -- Competency problems of public administration in countries in transition -- Polish research and education systems: developing competencies in the field of public administration -- Competency management in the Polish civil service -- Discussion -- Competency Management: The State of the Art in the Public Sector? -- The spread of CBM in the public sector -- Horizontal and vertical integration -- Specificity of the public sector -- Some of the problems encountered -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Contributors -- Author Index -- B -- C -- E -- F -- H -- J -- L -- M -- P -- T -- V.