EDUC 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Job Rotation
27 May 2020
School
Department
Course
Professor
EDU 240: Training and Development
Lecture 34
Key Elements:
Agreed-upon plan or set of objectives
Work environment is training laboratory
Steps:
a. Initial discussion, setting objectives
b. Opportunities identified, long-term plan set
c. Employee performs tasks, reports to coach
d. Process fitted into employee’s goals and organization’s long-term strategies
Techniques:
• Special project assignment
• Job rotation
• Design method or schedule of representation
• Job redesign/restructuring
• Job enlargement
• Conference attendance, professional memberships, teaching/publishing, professional
societies
Issues with coaching include:
• Coach must be selected based on ability, motivation, and availability and matched with
the employee.
• Coaching should be part of broader process.
• Performance of the coach should be integrated into performance management for that
individual.
Method: Mentoring
• Method in which senior member of an organization takes a personal interest in the career
of a junior member.
• Mentor: experienced individual who provides coaching and counseling to a junior
employee.
• Two roles:
1. Career support
2. Psychosocial support
• More focused than coaching - career development
Benefits:
• Accelerate career progress of underrepresented groups.
Document Summary
Steps: initial discussion, setting objectives, opportunities identified, long-term plan set, employee performs tasks, reports to coach, process fitted into employee"s goals and organization"s long-term strategies. Job rotation: special project assignment, design method or schedule of representation, conference attendance, professional memberships, teaching/publishing, professional. Benefits: accelerate career progress of underrepresented groups, transmit culture and values to newer managers, pass on accumulated wisdom of seasoned leaders. Issues with mentoring: ensure clarity of roles and expectations, choose mentors carefully, match mentors and prot g (s) with care, train both mentors and prot g (s, structure the mentoring relationship, ensure support from management. Advantages: can use wide variety of training methods, can control training environment, large numbers of trainees can be trained at once. Disadvantages: can be much more costly than on-the-job training, because training environment differs from workplace, there are challenges regarding transfer of training. Advantages: lower cost, greater likelihood of application of training on the job.
