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Chapter 09 dessler 12-ce_ppt_ch09
1. Chapter 9: Career Development
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Dessler, Chhinzer, Cole
Human Resources
Management in Canada
Canadian Twelfth Edition
2. Learning Outcomes
⢠ANALYZE the factors that affect career choices.
⢠EXPLAIN the evolution of career development
and the impact of that on employers and
employees.
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⢠EXPLAIN the strategic importance of career
planning and development in the context of
todayâs talent shortage.
3. Learning Outcomes
⢠EXPLAIN what management development
is and why it is important.
⢠DESCRIBE on-the-job and off-the-job
management-development techniques.
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⢠RECOMMEND how to manage transfers and
promotions more effectively.
4. The deliberate process through which a
person becomes aware of personal
career-related attributes and the
lifelong series of activities that
contribute to his or her career
fulfillment.
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Career Planning and Development
5. Early Stages of Career
Development Research
Vocational Preference Test
⢠realistic orientation
⢠social orientation
⢠conventional orientation
⢠enterprising orientation
⢠artistic orientation
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⢠investigative orientation
6. New Approaches to Career
Development
⢠more frequent job transitions
⢠linear career paths lose definition
⢠more dynamic and holistic approach to
career development
⢠focus on lifelong learning and flexibility
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⢠primary stakeholder is the person
7. New Approaches to Career
Development
Identify skills and aptitudes
⢠general aptitude test battery (GATB)
⢠concern or value a person will not give up
Focus on life trajectories
⢠designing career and life simultaneously
Become a learning organization
⢠an organization skilled at creating, acquiring
and transferring knowledge
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Identify career anchors
8. Career Anchors â Edgar Schein
1. Technical/functional
2. Managerial competence
4. Autonomy and independence
5. Security
6. Service/dedication
7. Pure challenge
8. Lifestyle
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3. Creativity
9. Focus on Life Trajectories
Shift in thinking from:
⢠traits and states to context
⢠linear to non-linear
⢠scientific facts to narrative evaluations
⢠describing to modelling
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⢠prescriptive to process
10. Roles in Career Development: The
Individual
⢠individual must accept responsibility for
career
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self-motivation
independent learning
effective time and money management
self-promotion
⢠networking is the foundation of effective
career management
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⢠requires:
12. Roles in Career Development:
The Manager
⢠offer developmental assignments and
support
⢠participate in career development
discussions
⢠act as a coach, appraiser, advisor, and
referral agent
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⢠should provide timely and objective
performance feedback
13. Roles in Career Development:
The Employer
⢠Provide career-oriented training and
development opportunities
⢠offer a variety of career options
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⢠offer career information and programs
14. Managing Transfers
Employees seek:
⢠greater possibility of advancement
⢠more interesting job
⢠greater convenience
Employers want to:
⢠to fill vacant positions
⢠find better fit for an employee
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⢠personal enrichment
15. Managing Transfers - Trends
⢠two-thirds of transfers are refused by
employees due to family/spousal concerns
⢠employers are offering spousal support
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⢠routine transfers (for job exposure, to fill
vacancies) are on the decline due to cost
and disruption to family life
16. Making Promotion Decisions
Decision 2: How Is Competence Measured?
Decision 3: Is the Process Formal or
Informal?
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Decision 1: Is Seniority or Competence the
Rule?
17. Management Development
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Any attempt to improve current or future
management performance by imparting
knowledge, changing attitudes, or
increasing skills.
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18. Importance of Management
Development
⢠Baby Boomers entering retirement
⢠management development
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attracts talent
helps organization achieve employer-of-choice
status
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⢠increased demand for next generation to
assume senior management
19. Management Development Process
2. Creating a talent pool
3. Developing managers
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1. Assessing HR needs to achieve strategic
objectives
20. Succession Planning
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A process through which senior-level and
critical strategic job openings are planned for
and eventually filled.
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21. Steps in Succession Planning
2. Identify core skills and competencies
needed in critical jobs
3. Identify employees who have, or can
acquire, the skills and provide
developmental opportunities
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1. Establish strategic direction of
organization
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Management Replacement
Chart
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23. Management Development
Techniques
⢠developmental job rotation
⢠coaching/understudy approach
⢠outside seminars
⢠college/university-related programs
⢠in-house development centres
⢠behaviour modelling
⢠mentoring
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⢠action learning
24. Leadership Development
⢠Canada facing shortage of leadership
talent
⢠requirements for successful leadership: knowledge,
competency, character
⢠six categories of leadership competencies:
1) self-mastery, 2) futuring/vision, 3) sensemaking/thinking, 4) design of intelligent action,
5) aligning people to action/leading, 6) adaptive
learning
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⢠Banff Centre leadership program
25. continued
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Banff Centre Competencies
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Banff Centre Competencies
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