Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1) Professional Training
3) Cross-Departmental Training
4) Develop “Soft-skills”
5) Personal development
• Career Development is the process by which employees’ progress
through a series of stage, each characterized by a different set
of development tasks, activities and relationship.
Employee’s responsibilities:
The individual is ultimately responsible for preparing his or her
individual career plan, experience has shown that when people do not
receive some encouragement and direction they make little progress.
Employee’s responsibilities also psychological contract is the
expectations that employees and employers have about each other.
Manager’s Responsibilities:
The immediate manager provides the guidance and encouragement.
Also manager typically evaluate employee’s readiness for job mobility.
More over managers are often the primary source of information about
position openings, training course and other development opportunities.
Mangers need to be effective in four roles, coach, appraiser, adviser
and referral agent.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
Career planning is an individual and Organizational needs
and opportunities can be matched in a variety of ways.
1. Evaluation Process
The objective of having evaluation is to identify the employee’s
strengths and weaknesses.
• Self Assessment
Self Assessment helps employees determine their career interest,
values, aptitudes and behavioral tendencies. In order to do self assessment
employees often use of psychological tests and the Self Directed search.
Tests may also help employees identify the relative value they place on
work and leisure activities.
• Assessment by the Organization
Organizations have several potential source of information that can
be used for assessing employees. The most frequently used source has been
the performance appraisal process. Other potential sources include
personnel reflecting information such as education and previous work
experience.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
EVALUATION DIRECTION GOAL GOAL
PROCESS PHASE SETTING SETTING
2. Direction Phase
The direction phase involves determining the career desired by the
employee and the steps that should be taken in order to realize his career
objectives are:
• Reality check
Reality check employees receive information about how the company
evaluates their skills and knowledge and where they fit into the company’s
plans. Usually, this information is provides by the employee’s manager as
parts of the performance appraisal process.
• Career Counseling
Career counseling is the activity that integrates the different
steps in the career development process. Career counseling may be performed
by an employee’s immediate manager, a human resource specialist, or a
combination of the two. The most cases, it is preferable to have the
immediate manager conduct counseling with appropriate input from human
resource personnel.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
EVALUATION DIRECTION GOAL ACTION
PROCESS PHASE SETTING PLANNING
3. Goal Setting
Goal setting employees determine their short and long term career
goals during this phase of the career planning process. These goals
are usually discussed with the manager and written into a development
plan.
Goal setting before individuals can engage in meaningful career
planning, they must also have an awareness of the organization’s
philosophy, but they must also have a clear understanding of the
organization’s more immediate goals. Otherwise, they may plan for
personal change and growth without knowing if or how their own goals
match those of the organization.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
EVALUATION DIRECTION GOAL ACTION
PROCESS PHASE SETTING PLANNING
4. Action Planning
Actions planning during this phase, employees determine how they
will achieve their short and long term career goals. Action plans may
involve enrolling in training courses and seminars, conducting
informational interviews, or applying for job openings within the
company.
• Mentoring
A mentoring relationship has been defined as the
relationship between an experienced employee and a junior employee,
in which the experienced person helps the junior person with
effective socialization by sharing information gained through
experience with the organization. This kind of relationship is
expected to contribute to the junior employee’s instruction, job
performance, and retention.
CAREER DEVELOPMENT PROCESS:
EVALUATION DIRECTION GOAL ACTION
PROCESS PHASE SETTING PLANNING
4. Action Planning
• Job rotation
Job rotation gives employees a series of job assignments in
various functional areas of the company or movement among jobs in a
single functional area or department.
Transfer is the placement of an employee in another job for which the
duties, responsibilities, status and remuneration are approximately
equal to those of the previous job. A transfer may require the employee
to change work group, workplace, work shift, or organization unit and it
my even necessitate moving to another geographic area.
4. Action Planning
• Coaching
Coaching is a peer or manager who works with an employee to
motivate him develops skill, and provides reinforcement and feedback.
• Workshops
Workshops offer experiences similar to those provide by
workbooks. However, they have the advantage of provide a chance to
compare and discuss attitudes, concerns, and plans with others in
similar situations. Some workshops focus on current job performance and
performance and development plans. Others deal with broader life and
career plans values.
• Seminars and Lectures
For top management seminars and lectures are very important
because it’s involve assembling a group of trainees and a group leader,
although seminar groups tend to be smaller than lecture audiences. In
seminars, the group’s leader generally focuses on coordinating and
motivating discussion among the group members.
• is the activity and set of
processes that aim to maintain and
improve employee performance in
line with an organization's
objectives.