CAREER PLANNING AND

DEVELOPMENT

Presented By
Somasekhar.
L
C.Sivakishore
DEFINATION OF CAREER
 1.Career is a sequence of attitudes and behaviors
associated with the series of job and work
related activities over a person’s life time.
 2.Succession of related jobs ,arranged in
hierarchical order, through which a person moves
in an organization.
 OBJECTIVES OF CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
 To attract and retain persons in an organization
 To utilize human resources optimally
 To improve morale and motivation level of
employees
 To reduce employee turnover
 To practice a balanced ‘promotion from
within’ policy
 To make employees adaptable to
changes
 To maintain harmonious industrial relation
CONT……
 To increase employee’s loyalty commitment to the
organization
 To inculcate equitable employment practices
providing equal career progression
opportunities to women and minorities
DIFFERENT STAGES OF CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
 Exploratory stage
 Establishment stage
 Maintenance stage
 Stage of decline
EXPLORATORY STAGE
 Ensure the availability of accurate information
about the various occupations existing in the
organization to the new employee
 Create opportunities to enable new employees to
get information with the organizational careers
through job rotation, internship, visit different
units, seminars, etc.
 Sponsor educational and training programmes for
ensuring supply of potential talent in future.
ESTABLISHMENT STAGE
 Identification of the best possible talent for the
organization
 Communicating the correct and positive of the
organization to the employee
 Maximum learning and favorable attitudes of the
employees towards the organization
 Assigning challenging jobs to employees to
enable them test their abilities and skills/
 Designing of development plan ,identification of
development needs, deciding career steps,
etc
MAINTANANCE STAGE
 Strategies motivate employees, so that they can
be productivity utilized even without
promotion
 Adequate oppertunities for transition from
specialist cadres to generalist position at
higher levels of the organization
 Help employees to adjust to their changing role s
their career shifts from active position to
advisory position
 Help employees to prepare for retirement
DECLINE STAGE
 Manage retirement without destroying the
employee’s sense of self-worth
 Invent new creative part-time roles for which can
use their knowledge, experience and wisdom
ADVANTAGES OF CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
 It reduces employee turnover by providing
promotional avenues
 It improves morale and motivation
 It enables organizations to man promotional
vacancies internally
 It ensures better utilization of employee’s skills
and provides increased work satisfaction to
employees
 It makes employees adaptable to the changing
requirement of the organization
CONT….
 It reduces industrial disputes related to
promotional matters and thereby provides
opportunity to the organization to maintain hard
industrial relations
 Career development programs ensure equitable
promotional decisions for every human in an
organization
 WHAT IS SUCCESSION
PLANNING?
1. Growth and survival of the organization are
the responsibilities of the top management
2. To fulfill such responsibilities each organization
needs to plan management succession
3. Succession planning is done in different time
frames to ensure the availability of right managerial
personnel at the right time in right positions for
continuing organizational vitality and strength
4. Good organizations try to make succession
planning in three different time frames
Cont……
1. Immediate (within 1 year)
2. Intermediate(1 to 5 years)
3. Long range (beyond 5
years)
STEPS OF SUCCESSION
PLANNING
1. Prepare and develop a management staffing
plan for all anticipated needs in different
time frames
2. The second step is staffing and development.
Staffing is concerned with recruitment, selection
and placement. Development means
development of managerial personnel through
training, job rotation, counseling and guidance
3. The third step is to ensure congenial
organizational environment to retain the desired
managerial personnel
 Cont……
4. The fourth step is to develop a good performance
appraisal system to get feedback on managerial
performance and to review their progress and
shortfalls.
5. The fifth step is the preparation of the management
resource inventory. Such inventory contains
details of personal data, performance records,
skills, potential, career goals and career paths of
managerial personnel.
MANAGEMENT
DEVELOPMENT
Management development is a scientific training
process for managers and executives to enrich
their knowledge and skills so as to make them
competent to manage their organization
effectively.
Characteristics of management
Development
1. A continues process
2. A knowledge updating activity
3. A vehicle for attitudinal change
4. A stimulant to higher competence
5. A deficiency improver
6. A self-development process
COMPONENTS OF MDP
1. Selection
selection process enables us to understand
the innate potentiality of the executives and
the degree and extent of their managerial
abilities.
2. Intellectual Conditioning
It is the process of educating managers and
executives on different managerial tools and
techniques
Cont….
3. Supervised training
 It is the process of guiding managers and
executives while they apply and use their
knowledge in day to day work
STEPS OF MDP
1. To look at the organizations objectives
2. To ascertain the development needs
3. To appraise the present performance of
managerial staff
4. To prepare manpower inventory
5. To plan for individual development
programs
6. To establish training and development
programs
OBJECTIVES OF MDP
1. To make available managers and executives
with requisite knowledge and skill to meet
the present and anticipated future needs of
the organizations.
2. To encourage managers to develop their full
potentiality for handling greater responsibility
3. To improve the functional competence of the
managers , making them more transparent
and responsive to the changing needs of the
organization.
4. To develop managers for higher assignments,
duly replacing the elderly executives.
WHY MDPs FAIL
1. Purposes of the management development
efforts in most of the organizations are often
characterized by insincerity.
2. Some organizations are too much concerned
to get the immediate benefits of MDPs.
3. In some cases, lessons imparted in MDPs are
in direct conflict with the philosophy of the
organization.
4. There is no system to evaluate the effectiveness
of the MDPs by such outside agencies.
PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
 DEFINITION: performance appraisal is the
systamatic description of an employee’s job
relevant strengths and weakness.
Or
performance appraisal is evaluating
employee contribution to the job.
PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT
 Provide performance feedback to all concerned.
 Identify individual skills, core competencies,
strengths and weakness.
 Evaluate goal achievement of employees.
 Identify individual training needs.
 Determine organizational training needs.
 Reinforce authority structure.