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
1. Employment Assessment
  1. Assessment centre to test for strengths and weaknesses
    1. E.g. Personality assessments, benchmarks, assessment centres performance appraisals
2. On-the-job experiences
  1. E.g. secondments, job rotation, job enlargement, promotions, transfers
3. Formal Course and Programs
  1. E.g. executive development programs
4. Pro Relationships
  1. 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
1. 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

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