Gestão por Competências na Administração Pública de Portugal: uma análise a partir do ciclo interligado de legitimação e de validação

The objective of this article is to analyze the model of people management by competences of Portugal Public Administration from the Interconnected Cycle of Legitimation and Qualitative Validation, proposed by Munck, Munck and Borim-de-Souza (2011). The categories considered were: constitutive definition, construct validity, composed by face validity, content validity, face validity and reliability, and predictive validity. The analysis of Portugal competence management model has allowed critical points to be identified between premises, purposes and objectives of it. In sum, from this study it was concluded that errors can circle the model completely, since has been verified some weaknesses and limitations in construct validity, specifically in the content validity, and in predictive validity, on which the competence management model was developed. In its scope, this article has identified issues that need to be emphasized, as the process of competence defining, and discussed key issues regarding the implementation and validation of competence models, for example, in relation to contributions of the model for individual and organizational performances, relevant to both public and private organizations.