MHR 523 Study Guide - Final Guide: Management Development
26 Mar 2016
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Career planning and development is a criical strategic issue in ensuring that the supply of necessary talent is available. It involves the deliberate process through which person becomes aware of personal career-related atributes, and the lifelong series of aciviies that contribute to his or her career fulillment. The evoluion of career development involved idenifying occupaional orientaion: realisic, invesigaive, social, convenional, enterprising, and arisic. Skills and apitudes can be ideniied, as can career anchors: technical/funcional, managerial competence, creaivity, autonomy, security, service/dedicaion, pure challenge, or lifestyle. Management development is any atempt to improve managerial performance and is aimed at preparing employees for future jobs with the organizaion. When an execuive posiions needs to be illed, succession planning is oten involved. Management development is important because the majority of canadian companies are facing a leadership shortage at all levels. Managerial on-the-job training methods include developmental job rotaion, coaching, and acion learning.
