Introduction to Human Resource Management

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Introduction to Human Resource Management

• Chapter 8
• Career Planning Development

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Highlights

• Discuss strategic development
• Components of development strategies
• Review different personnel management development
  methods
• Look _at_ advantages disadvantages of career
  planning
• How do career development planning fit together?

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Development

• Development is more future orientated than
  training
• Strategic Human Resource Development ID
  essential job skills for employees to learn for
  the long term

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Development

• Need to match this development with corporate
  strategies
• often LT process without ST benefits
• often management responsibility to tie into
  strategic plan

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3 Basic Development Strategies

• 1) Cognitive
• least effective
• articles
• lectures
• videos
• university courses
• focus info sharing

• 2)Behavioral
• role playing
• outdoors team building
• focus to reinforce desirable behavior

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3 Basic Development Strategies

• 3)Environmental
• most promising
• most difficult
• job rotation
• organizational development
• temp assignments
• project teams
• cross cultural management

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The Learning Organization

• Organization where people continually expand
  their capacities to create desired results
• new expansive thinking is nurtured
• people learn together
• look at whole processes instead of 1 piece
• team learning in an open fashion

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Knowledge Management

• Knowledge worker one who has the ability to use
  info to solve organizational problems
• want need to use this knowledge
• mgmt must have all info reqd for decision making
  (info sharing)

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Knowledge Management

• Knowledge worker fastest growing worker type
• need to find out who has what knowledge and
  expertise to apply where needed
• Knowledge manager to manage this info

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Competency Framework

• Make a list of competencies skills knowledge and
  behaviors that provide competitive advantages

• helps to pinpoint unique personal and
  organizational characteristics for success
• Can focus programs on these items ID

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University Partnerships

• Increasing in popularity, increase income and
  higher enrollments
• mutual benefits direct relationship work
  experience, use of institutional resources to
  develop special training facilities

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Internet, Intranet, Video and Conference Packages

• Increase in distance learning programs
• course range large right to Ph.D.
• allow lots of flex. , reduces geographic
  constraints, and saves on travel

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Cross Cultural Diversity Training

• Increase globalization
• need to train employees before traveling or
  moving
• increase immigration - essential to train
  managers on cultural differences

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Career Planning

• If you dont have a plan for yourself youll be
  a part of someone elses - American Proverb
• Career Planning is a tool to encourage employee
  development
• important to give employee a sense of a career vs
  a job with the company

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Career Planning

• Having a plan does not mean auto promotion
• need to have good performance, experience,
  education, planning and preparation

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Career Planning

• Can assist employees in planning
• provides encouragement benefits the Co. can ID
  pool of qualifications to draw from

• Aids in creating open, rewarding, dynamic
  environment
• decreases obsolesce and turnover
• if not currently done in a company many books
  professional can be of assistance

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Career Planning Development

• B4 thought of as a personal matter
• B4 more mentoring greater LT relationship with
  Co.
• normally HR department responsible for career
  planning program

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Career Planning Development

• Programs often done through planning, education
  information and counseling

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Career Planning Development

• benefits of career planning include
• develops promotable employees
• decreases turnover
• taps employees potential interests

• furthers growth
• reduces employee hoarding by managers
• Encourages recognition
• assists in employment equity

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Career Education

• Employees often know very little about planning
• feel luck performance only ways to get ahead
• might not be aware of other opportunities

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Career Education

• HR can increase planning awareness by
• holding seminars
• workshops
• speeches
• newsletters

• All of these items can help to increase interest
  in planning
• senior management backing is a must

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Info on Career Planning

• Employees need info about career opportunities
• need to know job descriptions, specifications,
  progressions job families (those that require
  similar skills)

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Info on Career Planning

• HR should have this info available
• can also ID future openings from HR plan plus can
  ID career paths
• ID of paths can able to point to individuals
  already on the path to talk to
• progression ladders indicate jobs on a specific
  path

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Career Counseling

• Have trained counselors in the department
• can assist with guidance on realistic goals and
  plans
• often self environmental assessments reqd

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Career Counseling

• Need to ID attractive opportunities, where
  employees are at what they need to do to
  achieve their goals
• must take into account life goals

• Want to take into account changes that might
  effect career paths (ie some markets might be
  obsolete or saturated)

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Career Development

• Individual
• once has ID goals then development follows
• career development might take employee outside of
  the Co.
• good performance success
• exposure becoming known for your work by hirer
  ups

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Career Development

• Exposure often through reports, presentations,
  committee work and community services
• Resignations often happen when career
  opportunities elsewhere
• May also alert HR to unfavorable work conditions
  to help prevent others from leaving

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Career Development

• Organizational loyalty can provide benefits,
  advice, mentors, sponsors which can help employee
  attain a promotion

• Mentor person higher up who informally give
  career advice
• Sponsors person who can create career
  opportunities (ie can nominate for promos)

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HR Support Career Development

• Develop management support for career planning
  activities
• can offer career planning, education, info and
  counseling
• also need to ensure employees receive accurate
  and timely feedback on career development
  performance

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Career Development

• Can work to inspire employees to further career
• can also request feedback as to why employees are
  passed over for promotion and help them develop a
  course of action
• support tracking of employees career development
  succession planning