Employee Competencies Acting as an Intermediary on Measuring Organizational Productivity: A Review Perspective

The expansion of markets and change in economies of scale has forced organizations to focus on identifying their employee's competencies and have an alignment in designing strategies in order to match their competencies to achieve organization goals and objectives. Organizations strive hard to create a competitive edge over their competitors; it can only be done when there is a match between employee competencies and framed policies. Organizational Productivity measurement is again a very complex phenomenon, it covers both qualitative and quantitative aspects. So measuring the performance not only mean only in financial growth, but also other factors which equally play a vital role in assessing its share in the market. The article highlights the linkage and critical role played by employee competencies as an intermediary in assessing the organizational performance. The article written after an extensive review of literature and focused on coming out with a paperwork which provides a framework by prominently finding the role of employee competencies. In this paperwork, the employee competencies placed as a mediating variable, Organizational policies as independent variable and different components of productivity as the dependent variable. The objective of this work is to bring clarity in these dominantly gaining importance concepts and providing a framework which trace out the importance of employee competencies. Though the concept has gained profound importance in western countries, in Indian context many sectors are still away of its use and its benefits. It is high time to add value to your organization's workforce and make them feel good about their integral and value addition role in measuring organizational performance.