Competence

Broad concept article:
 * Competence (polyseme), capacity or ability to perform effectively

Competence or competency may also refer to:


 * Competence (human resources), ability of a person to do a job properly
 * Competence-based management, performance-oriented organizational operation
 * Core competency, management concept of identifying the basis of competitiveness in an industry
 * Competency-based learning, framework for teaching and assessment of learning
 * Social competence, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation
 * Cultural competence, set of behaviours or social skills
 * Cross-cultural competence, set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations
 * Cultural competence in healthcare, health care services that are sensitive and responsive to the needs of diverse cultures
 * Competence (law), ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the person is engaged
 * Competency evaluation (law), the means used to determine if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial
 * EU competences, a model for subsidiarity within the European Union
 * Competence (geology), degree of resistance of rocks to deformation in terms of mechanical strength
 * Natural competence, ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA
 * Communicative competence, broad linguistic internalized knowledge of a language and its usage
 * Linguistic competence, system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
 * Conscious competence, a psychological model of learning