Question

Note: Answer all the following questions:

1. Define socialization. What benefits can socialization provides to the new employee?

2. What is training? Explain why evaluation of training effectiveness is necessary?

3. Discuss the term organizational development and the role of the change agent.

4. Explain how career development program is valuable to organizations.

5. Identify the five traditional stages involved in career.

Answer 1

1. Socialization is defined as the process of getting accustomed to the ways and culture of the internal workforce. It helps in developing a healthy, friendly bond between the newcomers and the working employees.

Benefits -

• It motivates the employees by improving skills and making adjustment to necessary customs for a better
• Provides an efficient and productive workforce environment.

2. Training refers to the time period when a new employee is put under evaluation to help them learn specific skills or acquire specific knowledge to improve their productivity.
Evalution of training effectiveness is necessary to keep in check the additional knowledge, new skills, performance and productivity acquired by the employee in the process.

3. Organizational development is a planned and managed way to achieve the company's goal of effectiveness and productivity via a learning and training process.
A change agent helps in effectively transforming an organization by either being a pert of it or from an extrenal source by providing various ways and plans to achieve the goals of being more productive, efficient and developed.

4. Career development program is essential to organizations because it supports its employees to go through excessive training programs which helps in development of employees skills, improve knowledge which helps the organizations to work in a more organized, developed and effective way. The employee is bound to have a better throughput at work after a career development program. Also, in times of adversities such as the Covid-19 pandemic, where a lot of organizations are downsizing due to economic strains, employees with better skills have more chances to survive such economic conditions.

5. The five traditional stages involved in a career are :
1. Exploration : Getting familiar with work.
2. Establishment : Greater responsibilities and more challenges which lead to more achievements.
3. Maintenance/Mid-career : Need of an update in terms of skills in a career.
4. Late-career : The person isn't updating, and is sort of relaxed in terms of performance levels.
5. Decline : Responsibilites are minimized and a person prepares for retirement.