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Competence

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Competence or competency may refer to:

Competence (human resources), ability of a person to do a job properly
- Competence-based management, performance-oriented organizational operation
- Core competency, management concept of identifying the basis of competitiveness in an industry
Competency-based learning, framework for teaching and assessment of learning
Social competence, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation
- Cultural competence, set of behaviours or social skills
- Cross-cultural competence, set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations
- Cultural competence in healthcare, health care services that are sensitive and responsive to the needs of diverse cultures
Competence (law), ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the person is engaged
- Competency evaluation (law), the means used to determine if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial
- EU competences, a model for subsidiarity within the European Union
Competence (geology), degree of resistance of rocks to deformation in terms of mechanical strength
Natural competence, ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA
Communicative competence, broad linguistic internalized knowledge of a language and its usage
Linguistic competence, system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
Conscious competence, a psychological model of learning