Document Type : Research Paper

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Successful accomplishing of HR tasks and responsibilities in organizations depends on different factors such as their knowledge, abilities, skills and competencies. Some of management theorists belibe that competitive advantages in future will be shown in form of organization's abilities to managing information and knowledge. In this way, Competency Management (CM) is an important issue in the scope of knowledge management and knowledge management, also, is subordination of Human Resources Management (HRM). In this paper, we try to review the concept of competency- standard, competency profile, competency life cycle and etc, and to state the stages of the process of designing a competency model. Also, by emphasizing on the important tole of competency- based management in HRM, some advantages of using subsystems of HRM that are based upon competency have explained, and finally, some recommendations have offered for human resources managemers in organizations in our country.

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