HRM200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Action Learning, Succession Planning, Baby Boomers

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: William Peckham

Document Summary

Employers should take responsibility for the career development of their employees. Employees should take responsibility for their own career development. The deliberate process through which a person becomes aware of personal career-related atributes and the lifelong series of aciviies that contribute to his or her career fulillment. More dynamic and holisic approach to career development. Idenify skills and apitudes: general apitude test batery (gatb) that looks at intelligence and other factors. Idenify career anchors: a concern or value a person will not give up. Focus on life trajectories: designing career and life simultaneously, personal and work life are no longer separate. Become a leaning organizaion: an organizaion skilled at creaing, acquiring and transferring knowledge. 242: technical/funcional, managerial competence, creaivity, autonomy and independence, security, service/dedicaion, pure challenge. Shit in thinking from: traits and states to context, prescripive to process, from linear to non-linear, from scieniic facts to narraive evaluaions, from describing to modelling.