Developing Human Resources (Distinction Criteria) - Desklib

This case study discusses the importance of constantly nurturing the capabilities of employees to upgrade their skills and knowledge in order to sustain and meet the current market dynamics. It focuses on the proposed Leadership Development Programme for Harvey's Medical Devices Ltd. to maintain the company's competitive advantage in the consumer medical device market. The report includes a scheme of work, timeline, costing, and evaluation of the programme.

Human Resource
“The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your
people will take you.”

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• Modern century businesses are facing multiple
challenges and opportunities on daily basis which brings
major influence on the operations and functional areas
of the companies.
• In order to sustain and meet the current market
dynamics it is important to constantly nurture the
capabilities of the employees in order to upgrade their
skills and knowledge.
• The present report is based on the case study of medical
devices manufacturer Harvey's Medical Devices
limited.
• The company what's first serving the clinical market
and then later was expanded into the consumer market
for their medical devices such as blood pressure
monitor, thermometer, blood glucose test kits etc.
Introduction
You cannot mandate productivity; you
must provide the tools to let people become
their best.
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Overview of proposed
Programme
“Leadership Development Programme”
The proposed programme of the Harvey’s Medical
devices is learning development programme that has aim
to Increase lead times for new product development and
manage the smooth flow of products at production sites
such as Singapore and Sweden.
The primary focus of Harvey’s Medical Devices, Inc.'s
leadership development program is to maintain the
company's competitive advantage in the consumer
medical device market, as many new entrants enter the
market with attractive device designs and capture market
share.
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Scheme of work, Timeline, Graphic outline
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Timeline for the learning development programme of
Harvey’s Medical devices Ltd. is 5 months
Phase
s
Need
analysis
Product
develop
ment
learning
Leaders
hip
develop
ment
training
Operation
al
efficiency
learning
Evalua
ting
and
testing
Manage
ment of
program
me for
future
Time
taken
3 weeks 4 weeks 3 weeks 5 weeks 2
weeks
3 weeks
Places Researc
h and
Develop
ment
(universi
ty
coopera
tion)
Inhouse
material
s
develop
ment
(plastics
),
Inhouse
material
s
develop
Market
Intellige
nce
Unit,
People
and
Learnin
g
Tool
making
and
product
line,
Develop
ment
Operation
s
(program
ming)
Produc
t
Control
ling
and
Testing
Facilities
Manage
ment.

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Costing for your training programme
• Training cost is a reasonable cost that has incurred for
the company in order to upgrade the skills of full time
employees which includes training materials,
curriculum development, rents, training equipment's etc.
• Harvey’s medical devices limited as estimated trading
cost of not more as £50,000 businesses not include the
cost of travel for the international leadership.
• Learning and development program of the company in
order to speed of the product development it is very
important to hire the new employees as they will help in
simplifying the operation which will bring more money
for the business.
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Evaluation of Programme
In order to evaluate the leadership development
programme of the Harvey’s Medical devices
Ltd. company there is set of different KPIs and
benchmarks that will help the partners and
participants of the programme to effectively
analyze the success and failure of the company.
• Time to proficiency
• Impact on organizational performance
metrics
• Benchmarking
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