Organizational Psychology

Information about the 20 most cited and 20 most recent articles on competent-ference approach provides the analysis of English sources from the database Web of Science. Use a set of Core Collection, which includes the most authoritative journals in various fields of knowledge, he was selected from two citation index: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). All data act trivial at the time November 23, 2014. When searching method was used snowball sampling. The choice of this method stems from the fact that the word competence (competence) was not the specificity and applicable only in the field of organizational psychology, and is a common word in English. As a result of filtering by name articles were found about 12,000 articles. To narrow your selection without losing quality, to compile lists used multipletechniques, in particular, clarifying the criteria used and were viewed “outbound” links (forward references) the first two articles on the competence-based approach (McClelland, 1973; White,1959). The largest number of articles have been found in the interdisciplinary fields of psychology, management (mainly strategic), medicine, research, business, education.