6 Describe and discuss the four main approaches to developing employees. Should all four approaches be utilized when developing employees? Justify your answer.

Developing an employee involves improving his or her skills in their current job as well as developing them for future responsibilities and new positions. As manager, it is your job to develop your people. Many companies are now holding managers responsible for the development of their employees and make employee development a part of the manager’s performance appraisal. (To a large degree, the skills required for employee development are the skills developed in leadership, management, and supervisory training.)

This four step employee development plan will put you, your employees and the whole department on track to achieve maximum potential. 1.Prepare the employee
To get the employee thinking about their own development and the areas where development can occur, here is a series of questions you will want to ask the employee. a.What are the skills needed to do your job? How well do you perform them?
b.What aspects of your job do you like least/best?
c.What major accomplishments have you achieved since your last performance appraisal?
d.In what ways, can your supervisor and/or the organization help you to do a better job?
e.What changes would you like to see in your current job?
f.What are your job goals for this next year?
g.Where do you see yourself in five years?
h.What have you been doing to prepare yourself to move ahead in your career?
i.What activities would help you develop yourself?

An excellent time to begin the developmental process is during the performance appraisal. Get the questions to the employee well in advance of the appraisal interview to give them time to prepare. Their answers will help guide the discussion. 2.Provide Development opportunities
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