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Unit 7: Training, Development and Career Management

the turnover ratios are generally high) have come out with lucrative, innovative Notes
compensation packages in addition to employee stock option plans for those who remain
with the company for a specified period.
6. Mentors and Sponsors: A mentor is, generally speaking, an older person in a managerial
role offering informal career advice to a junior employee. Mentors take junior employees
as their protégés and offer advice and guidance on how to survive and get ahead in the
organisation. They act as role models. A sponsor, on the other hand, is someone in the
organisation who can create career development opportunities.
7. Key Subordinates: Qualified and knowledgeable subordinates, often extend invaluable
help that enables their bosses to come up in life. When the bosses cross the bridge, they
take the key subordinates also along with them. In his own self interest, the subordinate
must try to find that winning horse on which he can bet.
8. Expand Ability: Employees who are career conscious must prepare themselves for future
opportunities that may come their way internally or externally by taking a series of
proactive steps (e.g., attending a training programme, acquiring a degree, updating skills
in an area, etc.).

Task People in India generally follow a careerist strategy focus on career advancement
through political machinations rather than excellent performance such as (a) favour doing
(b) becoming a yes man (c) flattery, etc. In your opinion, in what other ways might
employees try to influence their superior's opinions of them? How can managers tell
when an employee is sincere. What criteria should be used before promoting an employee?

7.10 Training Process

Training is most effective when it is planned, implemented and evaluated in a systematic way.
Unplanned, uncoordinated and haphazard training efforts greatly reduce the learning that can
be expected. A training process includes the following steps:
7.10.1 Identification of Objectives

The first thing is to identify the business objectives. This step provides the direction for which
way organisation has to move. Thus, the business plan shows the activities to be carried out to
achieve the said objectives.

7.10.2 Determining Training Needs

Training efforts must aim at meeting the requirements of the organisation (long-term) and the
individual employees (short-term). Training needs can be identified through the following
types of analysis.
1. Organisational Analysis: It involves a study of the entire organisation in terms of its
objectives, its resources, the utilisation of these resources, in order to achieve stated
objectives and its interaction pattern with environment. The important elements that are
closely examined in this connection are:

(i) Analysis of Objectives: This is a study of short term and long term objectives and the
strategies followed at various levels to meet these objectives.

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