Development Mechanisms for Enhancing Individual Competencies Towards Community Wisdom

Abstract

Competency in individuals within an organization refers to the fundamental qualities inherent in each person, including knowledge, skills, abilities, and motivations to successfully accomplish the goals of their position or specific job characteristics. These competencies are used as part of performance evaluations, to analyze work potential, and to assess the broad spectrum of an individual's performance and growth within the organization. In perspective of community, there is also a discussion about local wisdom, which refers to the knowledge, abilities, skills, beliefs, and potential for problem-solving that have been passed down from past to present continuously and associated in every dimension. This includes dimensions beyond nature, natural and environmental dimensions, as well as dimensions of people, communities, and societies. In the context of collaboration between local organizations and communities, it is associated with relationship between local organization, representative of government agency, and communities. Both of them would collaborate to improve household’s livelihoods, such as household’s income, jobs and careers, quality of life and reduction of vulnerability. Then the explicit knowledge among the community would be exchanged in-between individual’s competency and community’s wisdom. Many communities found that the running projects might be interrupted due to moving of organization’s individual which the competency depend on individual who leave the community. How we have a mechanism to enhance the competency of individuals in local organizations into the local wisdom of those communities. This article aims to explain the development mechanism from the perspective of network theory in order to expand the body of knowledge in those communities that are consequences of network theory based on structuralism and connectionist concepts.