Download - Unit 3 training and executive development
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Unit 3: TRAINING AND EXECUTIVE DEVELOPEMENT
Prepared & Presented by ,
N. Ganesha Pandian,
Assistant professor,
Madurai School of management
References: John M Ivancewich, Human resource
Management, Tata Mc Graw Hill
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CONTENTS
• Types of training methods
• Purpose- benefits- resistance
• Executive development programmes
• Common practices - Benefits
• Self development
• Knowledge management
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Job analysis and Maternity leave: Calming the Boss’s and Co-workers’ nerves
Case study
References: John M Ivancewich, Human resource management, Tata Mc Graw Hill (P.no:183)
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What is Training?
• Training is a process of learning a sequence of programmed
behavior.
• It is the application of knowledge & gives people an awareness of
rules & procedures to guide their behavior
• It helps in bringing about positive change in the knowledge, skills &
attitudes of employees.
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Why training is needed?
• Training refers to a planned effort by a company to facilitate
employees‘ learning of job related competencies.
• These competencies include knowledge, skills, or behaviors that are
critical for successful job performance.
• The goal of training is for employees to master the knowledge, skill,
and behaviors emphasized in training programs and to apply them to
their day to day activities
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Training Needs Assessment (TNA)
• Needs assessment is the process that is used to determine if and
what type of training is necessary
• It involves
1. Personal analysis
2. Task analysis
3. Organization analysis
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• Any gap between the expected and actual results
suggests a need for training.
• By observing, asking, and listening, a manager or HR
specialist is actually conducting a “Performance analysis”
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• There are a number specific steps to identify the training needs:
Step1: Behavioral Discrepancy
Step2: Cost – value Analysis
Step3: Is it a “can’t do” or Won’t do” situation?
Step4: Set standards
Step5: Remove obstacles
Step6: Practice
Step7 : Training
Step8: Change the job
Step9: Transfer or terminate
Step10: Create a Motivational climate
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Importance of Training
• Improves Morale of Employees• Less Supervision• Fewer Accidents• Chances of Promotion• Increased Productivity
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Training and Development Instructional methods
There are two types of Job training :
• On-the-job training takes place in a normal working
situation
• Off-the-job training takes place away from normal work
situations
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On- the Job training
• Probably the most widely used methods of training (formal
and informal) is on-the-job training.
• It is estimated that more than 60 percent of training occurs
on the job.
• One approach to systematic on-the-job training is the Job-
Instruction-Training (JIT) system .
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Some methods of On-the-job training
1. Case method – Written description of a real-decision making situation in
the organization
2. Role playing – Cross between role playing and an attitude development
program
3. In- Basket technique – To develop managerial abilities
4. Management games – Describe the operating characteristics of a company
5. Behavior modeling – Interaction management or imitating models – often
by use of films
6. Outdoor oriented programs – River rafting, mountain climbing and etc
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On–the–Job training for Managers
The below programs are not mutually exclusive, but run
simultaneously,
• Coaching and Counseling – relationship resembles buddy
system
• Transitory anticipatory experiences – Under study,
Management Apprenticeship
• Transfers and rotation
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Off- the-Job training
• Lecture-Discussion approach – use of blackboards, or visual aids
such as projectors
• Using computers – Computer assisted Instruction (CIA)
• Multimedia based training (MBT)
• Virtual reality
• Distance training or distance learning
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Resistance to training• Normally people experience difficulties in learning new skills & knowledge.
• The employees feel that management will entrust more work or new kinds
of work which would require additional skills & knowledge.
• Training programme & sessions disturbs the employees from performing
the routine duties & tasks.
• They are expected to learn more difficult activities & unlearn already
practiced skills.
• They loose their job authority & are expected to learn like students during
their training programme.
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Management Development / Executive development - an overview
Executive development includes the process by
which managers and executives acquire not only
skills and competency in their present job but also
capabilities for future managerial tasks of increasing
difficulty and scope
Executive development is a planned and organized
process of learning. It is an ongoing and never ending
exercise
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Process of executive development
• Analysis of Development Needs
• Appraisal of the Present Managerial Talent
• Planning Individual Development Programmes
• Establishing Training and Development Programme
• Evaluating Developing Programs
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Executive Development Techniques
• There are three major target areas: 1. Individual 2. Group 3. Organizational
Development : Individual techniques
1. Goal setting: E.A Locke proposed that goal setting is a cognitive process
of some practical utility
2. Goal setting process
3. Research on Goal setting
4. Individual differences and goal setting
5. Criticisms of goal setting
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Behavior Modification
2. Behavior Modification or organizational behavior modification
B. E. Skinner’s work with animals led to use of the term Operant
conditioning
Principles of operant conditioning: Positive reinforcement and
negative reinforcement : Punishments and extinction
Behavior Modification : A Managerial perspective
Criticisms of behavior Modification
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Development: Team building
• Team building is a development process that helps or prepares
organization members to work more efficiently or effectively in groups
• In one organization, team building followed this pattern.
1. Team skills workshop
2. Data Collection
3. Data Confrontation
4. Action planning
5. Team building
6. Intergroup team building
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Development : An Organization wide technique
• TQM (Total Quality Management) – is a philosophy, a
process and a set of principles that provide an organization
with what is needed to continuously improve its
effectiveness.
• TQM involves everyone in the firm in developing and fine-
tuning processes that are customer-oriented, flexible and
improving quality
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Importance of executive development
• Executive development programmes are required to train and
develop professional managers
• It enables managers to face problems related to technology and
institution.
• Executives need training and education to understand and adjust to
changes in socio-economic changes.
• Executive development is required to broader the outlook of
managers.
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Evaluation of Executive training program
The evaluation of the process assumes importance from the following perspectives:
1. Improving the quality of the training and development process. 2. Improving the efficiency and competency of the trainers. 3. Making improvements in the system to make it more responsive and
realistic. 4. Aligning the training activities to the organizational objectives. 5. Building the cost implications of the training into the organizational
budget. 6. Evaluating the ROI on account of training and development to justify
further investments
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Indicative Table for Managerial skills development
S.Competency Development
Area Methods
No.
1. Decision-making skill In-basket, Business games, Case study
2. Interpersonal skill Role plying, Sensitivity Training
3. Job KnowledgeOn-the-Job experiences, Coaching,
Understudy
4. Organizational Knowledge Job Rotation, Multiple Management
5. General KnowledgeSpecial course, Special Meeting,
Specific Reading
6. Specific Individual NeedsSpecial Projects, Committee
Assignments
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Self development / Personal development
• It is the process of improving oneself through such activities as
enhancing employment skills, increasing consciousness and building
wealth.
• Personal development covers activities that improve awareness and
identity, develop talents and potential, build human capital and
facilitate employability, enhance the quality of life and contribute to
realization of dreams
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Activities of personal development
1. Improving self-awareness
2. Improving self-knowledge
3. Improving skills and/or learning new ones
4. Building or renewing self esteem
5. Developing strengths or talents
6. Improving the career
7. Improving health, lifestyle
8. Improving social skills and emotional intelligence
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Context of Personal development
• Psychology became linked to personal development in the early 20th
century starting with Alfred Adler (1870-1937) and Carl Jung (1975-
1961)
• Adler refused to limit psychology to analysis. He also originated the
concepts of lifestyle as a individual’s characteristics' to approach life.
Self image and work-life balance came into management
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• Arthur chickering defined seven vectors of personal development for
young adults during their graduate years:
1. Developing competence
2. Managing emotions
3. Achieving autonomy and interdependence
4. Establishing identity
5. Developing purpose
6. Developing integrity
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Personal development planning
• Personal development planning (PDP) or Individual
development plan (IDP) or Personal enterprise plan (PEP)
is the process of creating an action plan based on
awareness, values, reflection, goal setting, and planning for
personal development within the context of a career,
education, relationship or for self-improvement
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Typical programs in this category includes:
• Work-life balance
• Time management
• Stress management
• Health problems
• counseling
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Criticisms to personal development
• Scholars have targeted self-help claims as misleading and
incorrect.
• In 2005,Steve Salerno portrayed the American self-help
movement – as acronym SHAM; claiming that these
concepts are ineffective in achieving its goals and also
socially harmful
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Knowledge Management
• Knowledge management (KM) is the systematic
management of an organization’s knowledge assets for the
purpose of creating value and meeting tactical and strategic
requirements.
• It consist of the initiatives, processes, strategies, and
systems that sustain and enhance the storage,
assessment, sharing, refinement and creation of knowledge
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KM Technologies
Knowledge Management (KM) technology can be divided into the
following general categories:
• Groupware
• Workflow
• Content/Document Management
• Enterprise Portals
• eLearning
• Scheduling and planning
• Tele presence
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• Groupware refers to technologies that facilitate collaboration and
sharing of organizational information
• Workflow tools allow the representation of processes associated
with the creation, use, and maintenance of organizational knowledge
• Content/Document Management systems are systems designed to
automate the process of creating web content and/or documents
within an organization
• Enterprise Portals are web sites that aggregate information across
the entire organization or for groups within the organization such as
project teams.
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Organizational memory or learning
• Knowledge management (KM) is a powerful tool which
makes use of it for organizational learning
• It is organizational memory based on experience and data
collected over the period of time
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