Competences : Dialogue without a Plot? Providing Context through Business Diagnostics

Examines the role that competences have played in recent years. While it is acknowledged that competences have helped integrate human resource activity, expresses concerns about the capability of competences to help organizations deliver business success. Specifically, the Competency Movement has failed to make the linkages between the requirements of different business strategies and associated management challenges and demands. As such, competences are like a novel with dialogue but no plot. Provides a context for competences from research in business diagnostics.