COMPETENCE

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Competence is the ability to perform some task. Incompetence is its opposite. Competency means a sufficiency of means for the necessities and conveniences in life.

• Competence (biology), a cell or a bacterium incorporating DNA into its genome
• Competence (human resources), a standardized requirement for an individual to properly perform a specific job
  • Administrative incompetence, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
  • Military incompetence, failures of members of the military
  • Darwin Awards, death by incompetence
  • Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, unskilled and unaware of it
  • Hanlon's Razor, Never attribute to malice...
• Competence (law), the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings
• Incompetence (book), a novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant

See also

• Competition
• Confidence
• Core competency
• Four stages of competence
• Incontinence

• Skill
• Skills management
• Competence management

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