A Comparative Research on Competency and Competence, Competency Model and Competence Model

摘要

This paper reviews the specific benchmark literature about the concepts of competence, competency model, occupational competence, competence at work and explores their logic relationship to one another. Based on this work, conceptual comparisons of competency and competence, competency model and competence model are presented. The comparative research clarifies some confusion surrounding the two pairs of concepts and emphasizes differences in their core connotations. Thus, the paper proposes that the two pairs of concepts should be distinguished in both narrow and broad senses, rather than being used alternately without distinction. We argue that the proposed distinction would be useful in establishing a coherent terminology, rather than a single terminology, e.g., competency.