System for Assessing Managers’ Competency Potential: Methodological Aspect

The professionalism of operational management employees, the high level of development of their key competencies and the systematic updating of these competencies are critical factors in ensuring the competitiveness and efficiency of enterprises in an unstable market environment and a constant shortage of economic resources. The article substantiates the methodological foundations for creating a system of prompt assessment of the competency potential of operational management employees and the level of its renewal using e-learning and testing tools. This constitutes the main objective of the study. The typology of competencies that constitute the competency potential is generalised as follows: professional-technical, analytical, managerial, communicative and personal competencies. A proposed assessment system consists of substantive and procedural parts. It is established that within the substantive part, criteria and indicators for the assessment of each competency are developed. The procedural part ensures the implementation of the assessment process using electronic technologies. A functional model has been developed, which allows for a quantitative assessment of the level of competency potential, determining an integral indicator and establishing a level – from optimal to unsatisfactory – in order to identify the need for its renewal. The results of the practical application of the assessment system are presented using the example of an automated interview with a candidate for a managerial position in an enterprise. A specific methodological approach to creating a system for prompt assessment of the competency potential of operational management employees and the level of its renewal is proposed. This approach is universal and can be used in the processes of personnel selection, certification, recertification and professional development of employees.