COMPETENCE-BASED APPROACH IN HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AUTOMATION

Employee development planning still remains one of the most complex aspects of human resource management. It traditionally is a manual process as it is assumed that selection of an appropriate solution for employee development is influenced by too many biased factors and could be done only by a human. Tools for human resources development planning available as a part of company resource management solutions available on the international market are often unable to ensure the necessary support due to being based on an approach the principal purpose of which is activity reporting instead of planning. The research was seeking for new alternatives - how to create an automated configurable and scalable human resources development planning system that is adjustable to the needs of the specific organization with the use of competence-based human resource management approach. Competence is a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge, skills and attitudes for achieving observable results and it possesses a benefit - it could be easily formalized. This fact opens up broad opportunities for IT solutions with new functionality. The mandatory for a modern company human resource management processes was identified while analyzing the architecture of human resources management in large Latvian companies, which were involved in research, and interviews with human resource management experts took place. A study of the information obtained via in-depth analysis was conducted along with definition of issues as well as the further course of the research was set.