7. SCANS competencies and foundation skills
Workplace competencies effective workers can productively use:
| Resources |
They know how to allocate time, money, materials, space, and staff. |
| Interpersonal Skills |
They can work on teams, teach others, serve customers, lead, negotiate, and
work well with people from culturally diverse backgrounds. |
| Information |
They can acquire and evaluate data, organize and maintain files, interpret and
communicate, and use computers to process information. |
| Systems |
They understand social, organizational, and technological systems; they can
monitor and correct performance; and they can design or improve systems. |
| Technology |
They can select equipment and tools, apply technology to specific tasks, and
maintain and troubleshoot equipment. |
Foundations skills competent workers in the high-performance
workplace need:
| Basic Skills |
Reading, writing, arithmetic and mathematics, speaking, and listening. |
| Thinking Skills |
The ability to learn, to reason, to think creatively, to make decisions,
and to solve problems. |
| Personal Qualities |
Individual responsibility, self-esteem and self-management, sociability,
and integrity. |
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