development

Examples of development in the following topics:

• Employee Development

  • Employee development helps organizations succeed through helping employees grow.
  • Human resource development consists of training, organization, and career-development efforts to improve individual, group, and organizational effectiveness.
  • The sponsors of employee development are senior managers.
  • The participants are the people who actually go through the employee development, and also benefit significantly from effective development.
  • Talent development, part of human resource development, is the process of changing an organization, its employees, and its stakeholders, using planned and unplanned learning, in order to achieve and maintain a competitive advantage for the organization.

• Developing Leadership Skills

  • Leadership skills can be learned, and leadership development benefits individuals and organizations.
  • Developmental job assignments are one of the most effective forms of leader development.
  • The second part of the leader-development model illustrates that the development process involves a variety of developmental experiences and the ability to learn from them.
  • This environment molds the leader development process.
  • Discuss the varying perspectives and models that surround the leadership development field, as well as the importance of leadership development

• Organizational Development

  • Organizational development is a deliberately planned effort to increase an organization's relevance and viability.
  • Organization development (OD) is a deliberately planned effort to increase an organization's relevance and viability.
  • Organizational development is a lifelong, built-in mechanism to improve an organization internally.
  • Organizational development is often facilitated with the assistance of a "catalyst" or "change agent" such as an influential manager.
  • Explain the role of organizational development in leadership and organizational change

• Employee Career-Path Management

  • Development of the specific means (policies, rules, procedures, and activities) to implement the strategy
  • The responsibility of the human resources department in regard to employee development primarily pertains to varying forms of training, educational initiatives, performance evaluation, and management development.
  • This is achieved through two specific human resource objectives: training and development (TD) and organizational development (OD).
  • Training and development, as stated above, is primarily individualistic in nature and focused on ensuring that employees develop throughout their careers to capture more opportunity.
  • Examine the dimensions and considerations involved in outlining an employee's professional development

• Sourcing Technology

  • Technology can be developed internally or isolated through technology scouting and then implemented through technology transfer.
  • Technology scouting is essentially forecasting technological developments through information gathering.
  • Technology scouts can either be internal employees or external consultants specifically designated to the task of researching developments in a particular technological field.
  • When technology scouting isolates new developments that could potentially provide advantages for an incumbent, strategies to acquire or source this technology become a focal point.
  • Technology develops through a series of stages: basic technology research, research to prove feasibility, technology development, technology demonstration, system/subsystem development, and system test, launch & operations.

• Virtual Teams

  • Project development teams work on complex sets of activities over a long time period.
  • They may be formed to develop new products, deliver a new technology system, or redesign operational processes.
  • Finally, information systems development (ISD) teams make use of lower-cost labor, typically offshore, to develop software.
  • They are typically created by dividing up the work of larger projects and assigning specific pieces to independent contractors or teams of developers.
  • Distance and lack of regular personal interaction can make it difficult for trust and group cohesion to develop.

• The Role of Social Norms in Teams

  • Teams and other types of groups develop norms to indicate acceptable ways of interacting.
  • Often, during the forming phase of team development, members will have conversations about standards of behavior for the group.
  • By doing so, teams can identify and develop norms that support their collaboration and productivity.
  • Effective norms can develop on their own, especially if team members have prior experience working on successful teams.
  • Examine the way teams develop and integrate norms, both social and performance based, in the evolution of the team dynamic

• The Behavioral-Science Approach

  • This includes concepts such as information processing, relationships and motivation, and organizational development.
  • The primary application of the behavioral-science approach can be seen in the field of organizational development.
  • Organizational development is an ongoing, systematic process of implementing effective organizational change.
  • Organizational development is considered both a field of applied behavioral science that focuses on understanding and managing organizational change as well as a field of scientific study and inquiry.
  • Combined, the behavioral-science approach is broadly about understanding individual and group behavioral dynamics to initiate meaningful organizational development.

• Financial Rewards for Managers

  • From a human-resources framework, managers are largely responsible for the well-being of their employees in regards to providing opportunities for career development and personal fulfillment.
  • When assigning tasks, managers must keep career success and development in mind.
  • Following are a few tools managers may use to optimize returns on career development:
  • Technical Assistance – Helping employees implement new technologies and acquire modern skill sets is a growing field in career development.
  • This approach can be of particularly high importance to career development for older demographics, who may have extensive experience in more traditional methods.

• Growth Strategy

  • Market development strategy entails expanding the potential market through new users or new uses for a product.
  • Market research is critical in development strategies.
  • In business and engineering, new product development (NPD) is the process of developing, researching, and bringing a new product to market.
  • NPD requires investment in research and development, usually over the long term, and extensive trial and error.
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