Leadership development and internal promotion programs
As a human resources professional, you have been assigned the task of developing and implementing an organizational career advancement program with three tracks:
- The first track includes a promotion within field track (WFT) that is associated with traditional supervisory and managerial roles. These promotions will come with a new title, additional compensation, at least two direct report employees, and program functions such as funds, logistics, real property, and transportation assets.
- The next track is a technical WFT, and this advancement is associated with a new title, additional compensation, and program functions as described above.
- The last track is identical to the first but is a promotion outside of the employee track with all the attributes of the WFT.
How you might go about developing and implementing a program of this type? In your responses please consider the following:
- How will you recruit for and select for participants in this program?
- Should all or only some employees be included?
- What type of criteria might you use to determine participation, eligibility, and selection?
Resource:
- Church, A. H. (2014). Succession planning 2.0: Building bench through better execution. Strategic HR Review, 13(6), 233–242.
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Use the Capella library to select three articles to read from the following on leadership development programs:
- Gurdjian, P., Halbeisen, T., & Lane, K. (2014). Why leadership development programs fail. Mckinsey Quarterly, (1), 121–126.
- Gusain, N. (2017). Talent acquisition vs development: With a focus on leadership development programs. Cornell HR Review, 1–4.
- King, E., & Nesbit, P. (2015). Collusion with denial: Leadership development and its evaluation. The Journal of Management Development, 34(2), 134–152.
- Monarth, H. (2015, January 22). Evaluate your leadership development program. Harvard Business Review Digital Articles, 2–4.
- Samani, M., & Thomas, R. J. (2017, January 11). Your leadership development program needs an overhaul. HR News, 2–5.
- Wolper, J. (2016). Tackling leadership development. Talent Development, 70(12), 64–65.