Self-Organizing Maps
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Employees' personal capabilities and intentions indicate their performance in their organizations. This kind of tacit knowledge is therefore very important to capture. This paper examines how we can catch the inner voice of people by the means of simulation. The collective inner voice speaks loudly for the organizations and their managers. The process starts by competence self-evaluation conducted among employees. The goal is to grasp individuals' own perception and understanding of their vocational competences and their creative tension. A Self-Organizing Map is then created from the project dataset. A demonstrator tool, SIMU_SOM, allows doing what-if type of analysis/simulation on the SOM. This means that employees can roughly try the impact of alternative competence based training program for themselves. For individuals this may open new directions to develop themselves and for organizations, this allows efficient use of training and development resources. We tested the approach with two datasets from real HR development projects: office workers and nuclear power plant operators. Finally, does the simulation of human-systems really have intended impact in real world unless those humans are cognitively involved in the course of the simulation, as described here?