Chapter 9

Developing
Careers

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Chapter 9 Overview

What is Career Development?

Challenges in Career Development
Meeting the Challenges of Effective
Career Development
Self-Development

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What is Career Development?

An ongoing and formalized effort

Focus on developing enriched and
more capable workers
Can play key role in recruitment
Tries to meet both employer and
employee needs

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What Kind of Path Are You On?

At least four approaches to careers:

Linear
Expert
Spiral
Transitory

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Challenges in Career Development
Who will be responsible?
Increasingly responsibility shifted to
employees
How much emphasis is appropriate?
Too much is harmful to org effectiveness
How will the needs of a diverse
workforce be met?
Women and minorities often excluded
from informal career development
activities
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Challenges in Career Development

Dual-career couple:
A couple with both members having
occupational responsibilities and
career issues at stake
Require special consideration in career
development

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Meeting the Challenges
Three Phases:

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The Assessment Phase
Goal: to id employees strengths and
weaknesses
Self-Assessment
Organizational Assessment

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The Assessment Phase

Self-Assessment
Skills assessment
Interest Inventory
Clarifying Values

Organizational Assessment
Promotability Forecast
Succession Planning

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 The Direction Phase
Determines the type of career employees
want
And steps required to realize their goals
Individual Career Counseling
Information Services
Job-posting systems
Skills inventories
Career paths
Career resource center

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Generic Example of Career Paths

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The Development Phase

Taking actions to create and increase

skills
For future job opportunities
Four most common development
programs:
Mentoring
Coaching
Job Rotation
Tuition Assistance
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The Development Phase

Mentoring
Can improve performance and job satisfaction
Particularly important for minorities
Professional and trade associations form of
group mentoring
Coaching
Ongoing meetings between employee and
manager
To discuss employees goals and
development
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The Development Phase

Job Rotation
Employees gain experience
Results in a more broadly trained, skilled
workforce
Are short and intermediate term costs

Tuition Assistance Programs

Supports employee education and
development
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Career Self-Assessment

Employees need to take responsibility

for own development
How do you define success?
How much money do you want to earn?
What kind of work do you want to do?
What kind of work fits your strengths and
values?
What do you want to do outside of work?
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Development vs. Advancement

Development Advancement
enhancing your positioning
skills and yourself to move
potential ahead in the
organization

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Summary and Conclusions
Employee development needs to be a
key business strategy
Management needs to determine:
Who will be responsible for development
How much emphasis to put on development
How to meet the development needs of a
diverse workforce
Career development is a continuing cycle
Employees need to take an active role in
their development
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