Career Development

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Career Development

• Match between organizational needs and individual
  needs
• The lack of career development leads to low
  morale and loss of the best-qualified candidates.
• Key players
• Individuals, managers, HRM professionals

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Career Development Tools I

• Employee Self-Assessment
• Where am I today? Where do I want to be? What
  gaps do I need to fill to get there?
• Self-study workbooks, computer-based training
  (CBT) programs, career planning workshops
• Individual coaching/counseling
• One-on-one discussions
• Mentoring, professional coaching, executive
  coaching

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Career Development Tools II

• Job matching systems
• Succession planning/replacement planning,
  internal job postings, expatriation and
  repatriation, dual-ladder programs, internal
  mobility (promotion, demotion, relocation,
  transfer)
• Employee development programs
• Tuition reimbursement, internship/apprenticeship,
  job rotation, job enlargement, fast-track
  programs

4
Developing Leaders

• Leadership vs. management
• Leadership practices
• Challenging the process, inspiring a shared
  vision, enabling others to act, modeling the way,
  encouraging the heart
• Born or made debate

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Leadership Theories

• Trait theories
• Intelligence, dominance, self-confidence, high
  levels of energy and activity, task-relevant
  knowledge
• Behavioral theories
• Consideration and initiating structure dimensions
• Situational leadership theories
• Hersey-Blanchards situational leadership theory
  (employee maturity/readiness, telling/selling/part
  icipating/delegating)
• Blake-Moutons theory (concern for people/concern
  for production, task managers/team
  leaders/country club managers/impoverished
  managers/middle-of-the-road managers)
• Contingent theories
• Fiddlers (leader-member relations, task
  structure, position power)
• Leadership styles
• Transactional leadership vs. transformational
  leadership

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Leadership Issues

• Gender differences
• Generational characteristics
• Cross-cultural differences
• Change Process Theory
• Unfreezing moving - refreezing