Özet:

Productive and efficient use of resources is of vital significance for organisations. Today, this significance is increasing even more particularly for public enterprises. This is because the gap between the products and services they are responsible to provide and the resources they have is also continuously growing. Along with the increase in the speed of change, the idea that conventional implementations fall short of expectations in efficient use of resources, resulted in increased tendency towards more productive applications. Consequently, the understanding of public management, similar to that of the private sector, started focusing on effective use of resources. This new approach, referred to as the new public management approach, brought about some novel understandings in human resources management (HRM). Human resources is one of the fundamental resources of an organisation, and one of the implementations of this new approach which aims to productivity and efficiency in use of resources is competence-based human resources management and practice. The competence-based HRM approach, which is widespread across the globe, has been extensively implemented in provision, selection, development and performance assessment of human resources. However, it can be contended that the public management in Turkey has fallen behind in establishing an understanding of competence-based HRM. The present study focuses on the competence-based HRM practices around the world and the position of Turkey in this regard. Through an analytical approach on the status quo, it was aimed to identify the need for a competence-based HRM approach in public management and findings were evaluated for development and practical implications.

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