EMPLOYEE
DEVELOPMENT AND
CAREER MANAGEMENT
Chapter 6
Employee development
Methods
Requisites
organizational development
types OD interview
career
cycle
development
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Employee Development and
Career Management
“An organization will be
in a better position to
achieve its goals, longterm or short-term, if
its employees ate able
to use their talents and
abilities to the fullest
extent possible.”
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Employee Development
Employee Development or Human
resource development
Activity focused on increasing the
capabilities of employees for
continuing growth and advancement
in the organization.
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Employee Development
Attempt to provide employee
with the ability :
1. To understand cause and
effect relationship
2. To synthesize from
experience
3. Visualize relationship
4. To think logically
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Method of Employee Development
Categories:
1. On the job
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Job rotation
Asst to position
Mentoring
Special project
Committee assignment
Formal education
Outdoor training
2. Off the job
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Requisites for Successful
Employee Development
1. Top management
support
2. Understanding of
development
interrelationships
(Development Efforts rendered
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useless)
Improper appraisal
Improper placement
Improper compensation
Improper selection
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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Definition:
Part of HRM that deals with facilitating
system wide change in the
organization
 Long range effort
 Solve problems
 Collaborative management
 Effectiveness of work group
 Change agent
 Applied science
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Components of OD
1. Sensitivity training
2. Process consultation
3. Survey feedback
4. Team building
5. Inter-group
development
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Types of OD Interventions
OD Intervention refers to OD proponents
to affect changes
Classification:
1. Technical intervention
2. Administrative
intervention
3. Social intervention
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CAREER MANAGEMENT
Career – refers to the pattern of work-related
experiences that span the course of a person’s life.
Career Development – process designed by the
organization to assist employees in managing their
career.
Career Development System – means used to
implement career development.
system of process and practices designed to link an
individual employee’s career goals.
Career Planning - set career goals and how to
achieve.
Career Management – shaping the path to career
progression.
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Components of Career
Planning Systems
1. Self-assessment
2. Reality check
3. Goal setting
4. Action planning
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CAREER CYCLE
Characterized by position, stages,
and transitions experienced by
individual employees
1. Growth stage
2. Exploration stage
3. Establishment stage
4. Maintenance stage
5. Decline stage
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How the make Career Development
more effective?
1. Challenging initial job
assignments.
2. Career counseling
3. Career development
workshop
4. Continuing education and
training
5. Periodic job change
6. Multiple career task
7. Professional associations
8. Supportive environment
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PRESSURES USED BY THE
EMPLOYER
1. Lockouts
 To force union stop harassing the employer
 Accept conditions set by management
 Prevent work slowdowns
 Prevent damage to property
 Prevent violence in the premises
2. Strikebreakers
 People are hired to replace strikers
3. Employer’s association
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Thank You
Give instruction to a wise man,
and he will be still wiser;
teach a righteous man, and he
will increase in learning.
8-15
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