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International Journal of Learning Development ISSN 2164-4063 20 12, Vol. 2, No. 1 Is Competency Enough? Understanding Job Performance in an Economic Depression Context Andreea Ţuţu Department of Psychology, Alexandru I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania E.mail: andreea.tutu@ Accepted: January 11, 2012 Published: January 30, 2012 Doi:10.5296/ijld.v2i1.1273 URL: /10.5296/ijld.v2i1.1273 Abstract Job performance has received an increased attention in the last decades. Aiming to better understand its determinants from a positive individual-orientated view, this paper‟s fist objective is to investigate the interacting effect of the employee‟s job competency and organizational citizenship behaviors on job performance levels of a sample of 200 Romanian employees (participation rate: 86.2%). Secondly, this research aims to analyze the interacting effect of employees‟ organizational citizenship behaviors and of Employer‟s organizational economic behaviors in a context of global economic depression. We used correlation analysis, prediction models, and, as tools, competency assessment checklists developed by means of the Competency Elicitation Interview (Faix et al., 1991), Robertson‟s performance scales for job performance (1996, 1997), Smith‟s scale for organizational citizenship behaviors (1983). Results support the idea that job performance can be approached from a multidimensional point of view. The significance of organizational citizenship behaviors as