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Employee Development I

The document provides an overview of employee development including education, assessment, job experiences, and performance appraisal and management. It discusses approaches to employee development such as formal education, assessment, job experiences, interpersonal relationships, and mentoring programs. It also outlines the development planning process which involves identifying development needs, goals, actions, measuring progress, and timetables.

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Employee Development I

The document provides an overview of employee development including education, assessment, job experiences, and performance appraisal and management. It discusses approaches to employee development such as formal education, assessment, job experiences, interpersonal relationships, and mentoring programs. It also outlines the development planning process which involves identifying development needs, goals, actions, measuring progress, and timetables.

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Overview

• Employee development
– Education
Human Resource Training and – Assessment
– Job experiences
Individual Development
– Performance appraisal and
management
Employee Development – Mentorship programs
March 1, 2004

Definition Employee Development

! Development refers to formal


education, job experiences, • Training vs. development
relationships, and assessments of – Focus
personalities and abilities that help – Work experiences
employees prepare for the future. – Goals
– Participation
• Why development?

Approaches to Employee
Formal Education
Development

Assessment • Off and on-site


• Short courses
• Executive education

Formal Job
Education Experiences

Interpersonal
Relationships

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Assessment Popular Assessment Tools

Personality
• Involves collecting information and Assessment
providing feedback to employees
about their behavior, communication
style, or skills.
Benchmarks Assessment
Center

Performance
Appraisals & 360-
Degree Feedback

Personality Assessment Performance Appraisals

• Performance appraisal is the process of


• Personality assessment measuring employees’ performance.
frameworks: • Measuring performance:
– Ranking employees
– Myers-Briggs Inventory (MBTI)
– Rating work behaviors
– The “Big Five” personality factors
– Rating the extent to which employees have
desirable traits believed to be necessary for
• Why assess personality? job success
– Directly measuring the results of work
performance.
• Problems

360-Degree Feedback Systems Job Experiences

• Relationships, problems,
• Who rates the focal employee? demands, tasks, etc.
• Why 360-degrees? • Most employee development
• Link to development occurs through job experiences.
• Effective systems • How and when does development
• When are these systems used? occur?

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Enlarging Job Experiences Interpersonal Relationships

• How do interpersonal relationships


• Methods stimulate development?
– Promotion • Types of formal relationships
– Lateral move – Mentoring
– Transfer – Coaching
– Downward move
– Job rotation

Successful Mentoring Programs The Development Planning Process

• Voluntary • Elements
• Informal relationships – Identifying development needs
– Choosing a development goal
• Choosing mentors
– Identifying the actions that need to be
• Purpose taken by the employee and the company
• Length to achieve the goal
• Level of contact – Determining how progress toward goal
attainment will be measured
• Evaluation
– Establishing a timetable for development
• Rewards
• Responsibilities

Company Strategies Next Time

• Assessment: Personality
• Individualization
• Read:
• Learning control – McCrae & Costa (1997)
– Wright (2003).
• Ongoing support

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