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Employee Development. Aligning Organizational Development with Staff
Development Is the organizational career dead? This course has ...
Employee Development and Retention. HRM 565: Human Resource Management
University of Phoenix One of the most challenging issues in ...
... Training and employee development plays a critical role in everything the
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Aligning Organizational Development with Staff Development
Is the organizational career dead? This course has made me contemplate my career with the company I've worked for for the last eight years. I was recently promoted, and I'm very excited about the opportunity, however, it does make me think there could be limits to the opportunities? What if there was to be a change in the senior leadership I directly report to; would the replacements see what I bring to the operations of our division in the same way the current Vice President does? I've selected to concentrate this paper on the efforts of organizations to further their staff with career development, growth opportunities and encouragement. Some questions I had when outlining this as a topic were as to whether my career is the responsibility of the company I'm with? Do we partner in furthering my career? Or am I sole owner of my career?
According to an article published this year by Lips-Wiersma & Hall in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, individuals are in charge of their career and are taking increasing responsibility for it. As a result, it is suggested, careers are becoming less central to organizational management practices. New forms of careers have received increased attention in contemporary organizational research. A prominent focus in this research has been whether and how, in an increasingly unpredictable career environment, individuals are taking responsibility for their own career development. The various theories underpinning the new career have in common that they argue that the individual can and should take more responsibility for their career. Being responsible means to ‘achieve goals that are personally meaningful to the individual, rather than those set by parents, peers, an organization, or society' (Mirvis & Hall, 1996, p. 138). It also means internalizing a measure of career success that is not measured by hierarchical progress in one...
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