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 Provided by Wikipedia