1) Potential Legal issues that relate to training:
Includes-
- Failing to give required training.
- During a training activity incurring employee injury.
- Incurring injuries to employees or others outside the training session.
- Reproducing & using copyrighted materials in training classes without permission.
- Excluding women, minorities & older employees from training programs.
- Not ensuring equal treatment to all employees while in training.
- Need employees to attend training programs that might be offensive.
- During a training session exposing discriminatory information.
- With disabilities not accommodating trainees.
2) Managing Wok force Diversity:
- Managing diversity means generate an environment that permits all employees regardless of their-race, age, physical condition, gender, family status, religious orientation or cultural background to contribute to organizational goals and experience personal growth.
- Diversity can be managed through obedience towards law &/ diversity training programs (to change employee attitudes about diversity & / to help employees develop skills needed to work with a diverse work force).
3) Melting the Glass Ceiling:
- Glass Ceiling– is an obstacle to advancement to the high levels of the organization.
- Obstacle may be due to immutable, or company systems that unfavorably affect the development of women or minorities.
- The glass ceiling is expected caused by require of access to training programs, to appropriate developmental job experiences and to developmental relationship.
4) Succession Planning:
- Refers to the process of identifying & developing the future leadership of the company
- Includes the following steps—
- Identify what positions are included in the plan;
- Identify the employees who are included in the plan;
- Develop standards to evaluate positions;
- Determine how employee potential will be measured;
- Assess the performance ;
- Link the succession planning system with other human resource systems (such as , compensation, training & development etc)
- Determine what feedback is provided to employees.
5) Developing Managers with Dysfunctional Behaviors:
- Many studies have recognized managerial behaviors that can cause an otherwise competent manager to be an ineffective manager.
- Includes: lack of empathy, inability to be a team player, poor conflict –management skills, inability to change.
- A combination of assessment, training & counseling is used to help managers change dysfunctional behavior.
6) Training & pay systems :
- In skill based pay systems companies pay is primarily based on the knowledge & skills they possess rather than the knowledge or skills necessary to successfully perform the current job. The basic idea of training & pay systems is to motivate employees to learn-pay is based on the skills that employees possess.
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