DPSCS-Dpp's Core Competencies

Core competencies are seen as the organization’s ability, sets of actions or process that organization can manage and usually help the organization or agency to perform well than its rivals. Hitt, Ireland, & Hoskisson (2007) further added that core competencies “are capabilities that serve as a source of competitive advantage for a firm over its rivals” (p. 84). Core competencies could be seen as the pillars of the organization or agencies because it differentiate an agency competitively and reveal its personality. For DPSCS-DPP, its core competencies (capability) are ethics and values, team building, interpersonal relationship, collaboration and managing change among others.

Ethics according to Pollock (2012) is “the discipline of determining good and evil and defining moral duties” (p. 8). Meanwhile, values are principles, qualities such as courage and prudence which provide the moral and psychological basis to maintain judgment and act on it (Campbell, 2006). Being a public entity that is responsible for protecting the public, its employees, detainees, and offenders under it supervision, DPSCS-DPP recognizes the importance of ethics and values in dealing with the humans, especially when it comes to making decisions that could impact lives

Good team-building enhances teamwork competencies which in turn support interdependent tasks and therefore the performance of the team within the agency (Hayes & Omodei, 2011). Also, effective interpersonal relationship is taken seriously by the agency; this is due to the fact that, the agency understands it is a competency that helps enhancing and advancing its priorities when it comes to protecting lives of the public, its employees, detainees, and offenders. Campbell (2006) echoed this by indicating that, one of the failures in some organizations is due to poor interpersonal