Regardless of whether or not you plan to be an HR professional, how might you use this competency model for your professional development? Specifically, how would you go about gaining proficiency in each of these nine competencies? How might doing so help you succeed in your chosen occupation?

 

How might the robust empirical process used to develop the model be used to promote the models credibility among business leaders? How would you argue in favor of the model to leaders in a government organization? In multinational, private corporations?

What do you think about the relative value of each of the nine competencies at different career stages of HR practitioners? For example, how might an executive HR professional differ from an entry$-$level HR professional in their need for each of these competencies?

How do you think business schools and HR programs could use the model for curriculum development for both HR professionals and students in other fields of business administration?

How relevant do you think each of the nine competencies is for an employee's success in organizations, whether or not a person is associated with the HR function? Explain.