Explain the employees’ and company’s responsibilities in planning development. Discuss current trends in using formal education for development. Relate how assessment of personality type, work behaviors, and job performance can be used for employee development.

Week 8: Interactive activity
8.1 Learning Outcomes:
Explain how employee development contributes to strategies related to employee retention, development of intellectual capital, and business growth.
Discuss the steps in the development planning process.
Explain the employees’ and company’s responsibilities in planning development.
Discuss current trends in using formal education for development.
Relate how assessment of personality type, work behaviors, and job performance can be used for employee development.
Explain how job experiences can be used for skill development.
Develop successful mentoring programs.
Describe how to train managers to coach employees.
Discuss what companies are doing to melt the glass ceiling.
Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.
8.2 Action Required:
Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.
8.3 Test your Knowledge (Question):
Use the 9-box grid for identifying where employees fit in a succession plan and construct appropriate development plans for them.
8.4 Instructions:
Answer the question in test your knowledge section.
Post your answer in the discussion board using the discussion link below

Week 9: Interactive activity
9.1 Learning Outcomes:
Distinguish between involuntary and voluntary turnover and discuss how each of these forms of turnover can be leveraged for competitive advantage.
List the major elements that contribute to perceptions of justice and how to apply these in organizational contexts involving discipline and dismissal.
Specify the relationship between job satisfaction and various forms of job withdrawal and identify the major sources of job satisfaction in work contexts.
Design a survey feedback intervention program and use this to promote retention of key organizational personnel.
List the main decision areas and concepts in employee compensation management.
Describe the major administrative tools used to manage employee compensation.
Explain the importance of competitive labor market and product market forces in compensation decisions.
Discuss the significance of process issues such as communication in compensation management.
Describe new developments in the design of pay structures.
Explain where the United States stands on pay issues from an international perspective.
Explain the reasons for the controversy over executive pay.
Describe the regulatory framework for employee compensation.

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