Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lecture 10: Adult Development
- Development refers to systematic efforts affecting individuals’ knowledge or skills for purposes of personal
growth or future jobs or roles
- Importance: retain key employees, manage talent, reduce turnover as well as meet challenge of global and social change.
- Taxonomy of Development Activities
- Employment Assessment
- Assessment centre to test for strengths and weaknesses
- E.g. Personality assessments, benchmarks, assessment centres performance appraisals
- On-the-job experiences
- E.g. secondments, job rotation, job enlargement, promotions, transfers
- Formal Course and Programs
- E.g. executive development programs
- Pro Relationships
- Coaching, mentoring, or sponsoring relationships where an experienced employee is matched with a less
experienced employee to provide guidance and professional development
- The most effective development strategies involve individualisation, learner control and ongoing
support.
- Life-Management Theory
- Three classes of behaviour (SOC) Selection- Articulation and setting of goals Optimisation- Optimisation and
use of goal-relevant means Compensation- Availability and use of compensatory means to maintain goal
attainment when previously available means are no longer available or are blocked