Competence or competency may refer to:
- Competence (human resources), ability of a person to do a job properly
- Competence-based management, performance-oriented organizational operation
 - Core competency, management concept of identifying the basis of competitiveness in an industry
 
 - Competency-based learning, framework for teaching and assessment of learning
 - Social competence, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills needed for successful social adaptation
- Cultural competence, set of behaviours or social skills
 - Cross-cultural competence, set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that enables effective work in cross-cultural situations
 - Cultural competence in healthcare, health care services that are sensitive and responsive to the needs of diverse cultures
 
 - Competence (law), ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the person is engaged
- Competency evaluation (law), the means used to determine if a criminal defendant is competent to stand trial
 - EU competences, a model for subsidiarity within the European Union
 
 - Competence (geology), degree of resistance of rocks to deformation in terms of mechanical strength
 - Natural competence, ability of cells to alter their own genetics by taking up extracellular DNA
 - Communicative competence, broad linguistic internalized knowledge of a language and its usage
 - Linguistic competence, system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language
 - Conscious competence, a psychological model of learning
 
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