Integrated competency management

The TMA competency model

The TMA software suite offers a comprehensive solution for job profiling, talent management, feedback and assessment.

It’s not about bending someone to the needs of a job. It’s about finding the job profile that gives a person the best chance of delivering first-class results - and enjoying themselves as they do it.

The process looks to find the right fit, aligning the needs of the worker with your needs as an organisation. There’s value on both sides.

The TMA model is made up of 53 competencies, subdivided into four levels:

• General
• Operational
• Tactical
• Strategical

These subdivisions ensure a real-life fit of behavioural examples to the different levels of jobs within a job family or career ladder. Additional information about development potential, interview advice and coaching pathways take the process a step further.

TMA and gradar

We automatically translate your job evaluation results into up to seven TMA competencies as part of the grading process. The selection is based on career path, job grade and global job family, with reports easily filtered and exported as an editable Word document.

We used an evidence-based approach to select general competencies for every career path and range of grades. These are then combined with specific competencies for each global job family, career path and range of grades.

Best predictors for on-the-job performance are intelligence and conscientiousness, so we chose the closely-related competencies of “learning ability”, “problem analysis” and “workmanship” as default within the Individual Contributor career path.

For the management career path we chose different competencies for the operational, tactical and strategic range that account for the specific nature of the associated management tasks.

Our selection of project management competencies was inspired by TMA’s result area of “planning and organising”.