TAEDEL402A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Job Rotation, Employee Engagement, Succession Planning
8 May 2018
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WEEK 9: EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT
Why is Development Important?:
• Helps managers understand their strengths,
weaknesses, and interests
• Helps managers expand responsibilities to
meet their growth needs
• Increases retention of valuable managers
• Ensures employees have needed
competencies
• Helps increase employee engagement
Development: learning experiences that help employees grow and prepare for the future - involves voluntary
learning not tied directly to the current job
Training: related to the current job and typically required
Protean Career: based on self-diretio, herey oe’s areer is drie y the perso s. the orgaizatio
• goal is to achieve psychological success
• Employees need to develop new skills rather than rely on static knowledge
Boundaryless Career: individuals identify more with a job and profession than an employer
Development Planning:
1. Self-assessment—identifying opportunities
and areas for improvement
2. Reality check—identifying what needs are
most realistic to develop
3. Goal setting—establishing goals to focus
development efforts
4. Action planning—creating a plan to determine
how goals will be achieved
Formal Education:
• on-site or off-site programs tailored
speifially for a opay’s eployees
• short courses offered by consultants or
academic institutions
• on-campus university programs
• Many companies provide tuition
reimbursement
Executive Education:
• Includes executive MBA programs and
specialized curricula on topics such as
leadership, entrepreneurship, and global
business
• Blended learning is common
• Educational institutions have begun offering
in-house, customized programs
Assessment:
• Involves collecting information and providing feedback about behavior, communication style, and skills
• Assessment may help:
o identify managerial potential
o identify strengths and weaknesses of members in teams
o self-awareness
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Document Summary
Why is development important: helps managers understand their strengths, weaknesses, and interests, helps managers expand responsibilities to meet their growth needs. Increases retention of valuable managers: ensures employees have needed competencies, helps increase employee engagement. Development: learning experiences that help employees grow and prepare for the future - involves voluntary learning not tied directly to the current job. Training: related to the current job and typically required. Development planning: self-assessment identifying opportunities and areas for improvement, reality check identifying what needs are most realistic to develop, goal setting establishing goals to focus development efforts, action planning creating a plan to determine how goals will be achieved. Formal education: on-site or off-site programs tailored spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)ally for a (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)y"s e(cid:373)ployees short courses offered by consultants or academic institutions. Includes executive mba programs and specialized curricula on topics such as leadership, entrepreneurship, and global business.
