How To Developing Relationships And Workplace Achievement

Developing relationships and
workplace achievement

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1. Evaluate the potential benefits to organization of developing individuals in the workplace..1
2. Development vehicles available to the organisation which are appropriate in meeting the
development needs of the individual. ....................................................................................4
3. Design a plan to meet the identified development needs and expectations of an individual..8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
In every organization it is very important to develop relationship between employer and
employees so they feel connected and motivated due to which there is enhance in achievements
at the workplace (Dries and Pepermans, 2012). There are several factors that showcase that in an
organization there is effective relationship between employers and employees, those factors are
trust between all staffs, mutual respect for every employee, positive environment, welcome and
accept diversity and open communication between employers and employees. Managers of a
company can use different ways which help them to develop individuals that leads to workplace
achievement, maintain positive environment, manage and understand their boundaries, avoid
gossiping at workplace, listen and understand actively, appreciate employees for good work,
schedule time and activities to develop relationship and so on. In this report the organization
taken is Next which is founded by Joseph Hepworth in year 1865 and headquartered in Enderby,
Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom. Next is British multinational retail store of clothing,
footwear and home products and it is largest retail store of clothing on the basis of sales in UK.
In this case study, respective company facing problems related to inefficient employees who are
lacking in skills and knowledge which makes them demotivated at the workplace and reduces the
efficiency in carrying the business operations effectively and efficiently. This is occur in Next
due to inefficient trainers, goal are not clear to employees, training is not appropriate and lack of
resources. Covered topics in this report is analysis and evaluation of potential benefits of
developing individual at workplace for an organization which improve their situation which they
faced that is mentioned in above case study.
MAIN BODY
1. Evaluate the potential benefits to organization of developing individuals in the workplace.
In a firm an individual refers to the employees or staff, it is a most valuable assets and
backbone for an organization. Every single employee contribute to success and failure of a firm
in their respective ways. An organization and most powerful machine with update technology
will not able to perform their function if there is no effective employees or individuals
(Littlejohn, Milligan and Margaryan, 2012). So it is the responsibilities of managers and
employees to initiate in proper manner to enhance individual's existing skills and knowledge
which leads to professional growth, personal growth and organizational growth.
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Management of Next organize various activities to overcome the case study problems by
developing individual or employees in their organization. Such activities are asked and listen to
employees’ ideas and suggestion, organize team activities by which they learn from each other.
They appoint train mentor, develop training and development program, develop learning
environment, develop opportunities for employees, create innovative learning mode, set time and
goal for learning and many more. In Next Plc., there are numerous benefits of individual
development at workplace, some major of them are described below which show that they
overcome from respective case: Improve performance:- Development of individual help them to enhance the work
performance which leads to increase in profit and growth of a firm. The individual can
develop their knowledge and skills by training which enhance their understanding of
responsibilities related to job and role which build their confidence (Njoroge and
Yazdanifard, 2014). The respective company organize training and development session
for their employees or individuals through which they enhance knowledge and skills that
leads to increase in productivity and growth of an organization. Improve satisfaction and morale :- Organizing activities of developing individual help
employers to make employees feel that they are important and company need them. And
when employees get satisfied they will give their hundred percent for completing their
work or task in effective and efficient manner which leads to company growth. The Next
Plc’s managers design and maintain various activities to motivate and satisfy their
employees so that they perform task and job in best manner and consider organization’s
goal as their goal. Employees of respective firm feel appreciated, satisfied and challenged
from their jobs through the individual development program organized by managers. Increase productivity and conformity to quality standards:- When a company focus on
individual development it will directly and indirectly affect the productivity and
efficiency in process which leads to quality productivity and improve in companies
turnover and shareholder of an organization (Dutton and Ragins, 2017). Factors which
improve productivity of individual are motivation, training and development programs
and many more. The Next management design individual development session which
help employees to do the work in effective and efficient way and in respective or given
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