YOUR PEOPLE
Introduction
What is an Organization?
An organization is a
voluntary aggregation of individuals who have come together with the aim of
fulfilling common objectives. A cricket team is an organization, so is
Microsoft. It is not an office building, nor is it composed of office furniture,
or transport. It is really the
people in the organization who are the organization. No amount of management
initiatives, meetings, hi-tech equipment or jargon can get around this hard
fact. For managers to be effective, therefore, they have to manage people to
achieve the objectives of the organization. For managers do not actually do
work; their work is to plan how to achieve organizational results by training,
developing and motivating their team, people all!
Staff development has to be manager-driven: Three reasons:
i)
No training is value–free, it is colored by the values,
attitudes and assumptions of their trainers, on which organizational objectives
are based. Any incompatibility here will result in confusion.
ii)
Full cooperation of line managers is essential, because for
both on-the-job as well as off-the-job training, his commitment is essential.
His effectiveness is based on how well trained/ developed his subordinates are.
iii)
The organization must have a learning-culture built right into
the basic approach to doing business. Staff (and personal!) Development is so
obviously part and parcel of managerial and leadership skills that we will not
touch upon it further in the ensuing 52 modules, one for every week in a year.
QUESTIONS:
1.
What is an organization?
2. Why is staff development
manager-driven in an organization?
