Method, system and apparatus for evaluation of employee competencies using a compression/acceleration methodology

Abstract

A mechanism to evaluate the value of employee competencies across a business entity is provided. Managers provide raw interpretations of employee competencies in a variety of selected competency areas. The raw evaluations of employee competencies are weighted and stored according to an organizational utility of each competency to the business entity, arriving at an adjusted competency value for each competency. Depth of an employee's competency in a particular area is evaluated by selecting the highest adjusted competency value for an employee and then compressing that highest adjusted competency value in order to level initial assessments of an employee's strongest skill This compressed value is augmented by one or more accelerators based upon the assessments of the employee's other competencies. The result is an overall domain competency rating for the employee that can then be used for comparison against other employees in the business entity.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
 determining a highest competency value from a set of competencies associated with an identifier of a member of a business entity, wherein
 each competency value is on a competency scale from a minimum competency value to a maximum competency value, 
 the identifier and associated set of competencies are stored as an entry in a first table, and 
 the first table is accessible to a processor node performing said determining; 
 compressing the highest competency value, wherein said compressing maps the highest competency value to an adjusted competency scale; 
   generating an accelerator multiplier for the highest competency value from one or more values of remaining competencies of the set of competencies;   generating an overall domain competency value by multiplying the compressed highest competency value by the accelerator multiplier; and   displaying the overall domain competency value on a display coupled to the processor node.   using the accelerator value associated with a matching competency value stored in the third table.