Talent Management Plan – Developing Talented Employees
Performance management is the process of assessing employee performance and delivering targeted feedback for improvement. Performance appraisals are conducted periodically to measure employee performance against specific criteria, often based on KSAs and individual, department, and organizational goals. In the context of talent management, performance appraisals can be used to identify top-performing employees and high-potential employees who could be developed to fill upper-level roles in the organization. For instance, some organizations use performance appraisals to identify the top 5% or 10% of performers in a given job position and “groom” those employees for advanced positions. However, high performance in one job does not necessarily translate to high performance in a different job; therefore, many organizations will use a combination of performance appraisals and recommendations from supervisors to identify employees who may be successful in a different job.
For this Assignment, you will continue to work towards completing your Talent Management Plan that is due by Day 7 of Week 4. Last week, you considered how you might apply what you have learned about job analysis, KSAs, and assessment to the selection and identification of talented candidates. This week you will apply what you have learned about needs analysis and training to the development of talented employees. You will also consider how a new topic, performance management, can also be used to develop talented employees.
To Prepare for this Assignment:
· Read Chapter 7 in the Aamodt textbook, Industrial/Organizational Psychology: An Applied Approach. Review the process for evaluating employee performance.
· Review Chapter 23, focusing on pages 527-528, in The SAGE Handbook and the article, “Talent Management: Conceptual Approaches and Practical Challenges.” Pay particular attention to considerations related to the development and performance management of talented employees.
· Read Chapter 3, focusing on pages 56-57, in The SAGE Handbook. Consider how you might incorporate the performance dimensions, Creative and Innovative Performance (CIP) and Counterproductive Work Behaviors (CWB), into a performance appraisal for your Talent Management Plan. Also consider how cognitive ability and personality (e.g., conscientiousness) are related to these dimensions and may help you identify high-potential employees.
· Revisit the information presented about Webuttik in this week’s media. This time, examine the strengths and limitations of the organization’s current approaches to the development and performance management of employees.
· Think about how you might apply what you have learned about needs analysis, training design, and performance management to help the Webuttik organization identify and address gaps in performance and identify top performers who could fill managerial positions.
Resources
Required Readings
Needs Analysis and Training
· Campbell, J., Kuncel, N., & Kostal, J. (2018). Training and learning in work roles. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychologyLinks to an external site. (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 533-610). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
o Note: Chapter 19, Focus on pages 539-549
o Time Estimate: 60 minutes
· Bell, B., & Moore, O. (2018). Learning, training and development in organizations: emerging trends, recent advances, and future directions. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.), The handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychologyLinks to an external site. (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 215-233). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
o Note: Chapter 10, Focus on pages 215-218
o Time Estimate: 30 minutes
· Noe, R. A., Clarke, A. D., & Klein, H. J. (2014). Learning in the twenty-first-century workplace. Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational BehaviorLinks to an external site., 1(1), 245–275
o Time Estimate: 60 minutes
Talent Management and Performance Appraisal
· Aamodt, M. (2016). Industrial/organizational psychology: An applied approach (8th ed.). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
o Chapter 7, “Evaluating Employee Performance” (pp. 233–267 only)
o Time Estimate: 65 minutes
· Harari, M., & Viswesvaran, C. (2018). Individual job performance. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychologyLinks to an external site. (2nd ed., Vol. 1, pp. 55-72). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
o Note: Chapter 3, Focus on pages 56-57
o Time Estimate: 20 minutes
· Meyers, M., & Paauwe, J. (2018). Talent management. In D. S. Ones, N. Anderson, C. Viswesvaran, & H. K. Sinangil (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of industrial, work, and organizational psychologyLinks to an external site. (2nd ed., Vol. 3, pp. 517-544). London, UK: SAGE Publications, Ltd.
o Note: You were first introduced to this Chapter 23 reading in Week 2. Review again for this week. Focus on pages 527-528.
o Time Estimate: 15 minutes
Required Media
Walden University, LLC. (2019). Talent management plan: WebbutikLinks to an external site. [CDN media file]. Walden University Blackboard. https://waldenu.instructure.com
INSTRUCTIONS: Submit a 2–3-page paper that addresses the following questions. Your paper should follow APA style, be double-spaced with one-inch margins, and include a title page and reference list.
· Describe one approach for conducting a needs analysis and the degree to which the approach might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik.
· Describe one approach or model for conducting training and development of employees, and explain the degree to which the approach or model might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik.
· Describe one approach or model for performance management and the degree to which the approach or model might be useful to consider when developing a Talent Management Plan for Webuttik.
Note: You will use this Assignment, as well as feedback you receive from your Instructor, to complete a Talent Management Plan due by Day 7 of Week 4.