Understanding Inherited Job Competency Overrides

When you attach a competency to an organizational structure, organizational business unit, or job group, the jobs within that level inherit the competency. After you review the inherited competencies for a job, you might need to customize these competencies to the particular needs of an organizational structure, organizational business unit, job group, job, or job in an organizational business unit. For example, a competency such as computer skills might require a different level of proficiency for computer programmers than it does for administrative assistants. When you set up the options for this job competency, you might enter a basic level of proficiency. Then, for the job computer programmer (which inherits the competency), you can override the competency options by entering a different level of proficiency.

Whenever you add, change, or delete any descriptions or options for an inherited or attached competency, you are overriding that competency. You can override any inherited or attached competency at any level in the organizational structure.

This table describes tasks related to job competency overrides:

Task	Description
Reviewing default descriptions	From the Work with Job Competencies in an Organization form, you can review the default descriptions for a competency by choosing a competency from the list on the right side of the detail area and then choosing Default Description from the Row menu. The system displays the default descriptions for the competency that you select.
Reviewing default options	From the Work with Job Competencies in an Organization form, you can review the default options for a competency by choosing a competency from the list on the right side of the detail area and then choosing Default Options from the Row menu. The system displays the default options for the competency that you select.
Excluding a competency from gap analysis	If you want to include a competency in the gap analysis for some jobs but not all, you can enter that information when you attach an additional competency to an organizational business unit, job group, or job.