Chapter 7: Skills and Incentives

Modern talent management is aligned with skills and competency mapping. Skills and incentives are two key ingredients for any human resource strategy. Both concepts are closely tied to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The former is driven by internal rewards or self-fulfillment, while the latter is driven by external rewards or to avoid punishment.

Moodle Workplace provides several tools that support both intrinsically and extrinsically motivated tasks, namely certificates, competencies, and badges.

First, we are going to provide an overview of skills and incentives in Moodle Workplace, which includes an overview of the typical processes that occur once certain goals have been achieved. We are also going to differentiate between the covered tools in terms of related activities for formative and summative assessments.

The focus of this chapter is on certificates since they are unique to Moodle Workplace. You will learn how to manage certification...