Employee Development Proposal

Running head: EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
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1EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
Introduction
The human resource program is considered to be a valuable process to gather
knowledge and gain the essential skills required for efficiently performing in the
organization and managing the human resource capital in an efficient manner. These
human resource development programs provide a competitive advantage for the
companies and the business organization. Employees training and development program
helps to increase the productivity and drive business growth. The employees of the
organization highly benefits from the human resource development programs which are
mainly focused on developing the strategies and implementing successful learning
strategies for the employees. These programs are essential and are highly beneficial for
the employees as well as the organization. The human resource development programs
mainly focuses on providing multi disciplinary training and enables the mangers to make
a positive impact on the performance of the business. It reduces the employee turnover
rate and the organizations are able to save the time and effort incurred while developing
an unskilled workforce. The purpose of this assignment is to develop and evaluate human
resource development program used in the chosen organization Tesco. It describes the
program in details and analyzes the programs goals and objectives. It discusses the ways
of program implementation and its benefits to the employees of the organization. Further
it outlines the training program and provides description of the training materials needed
by the organization to conduct the human resource development program. Lastly, it
provides an evaluation plan for the organization which includes both short terms a long
term planning.

2EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
1 Brief description of employee development program
The employee development program is to make the employees more competitive in
the market operations and activities of Tesco. The employee development program is
although very common but is highly effective method for providing training and development
to the staff members at the workplace of the organization. The employees at Tesco are highly
qualified and they possess the necessary skills and knowledge for performing the activities.
However, the employee development program is designed to provide the employee with an
opportunity to enhance their working abilities and promote equality and diversity in the
workplace. The employee development program employs different learning styles which are
included in the programs adapted by the company. Tesco is a retail chain company which is
associated with grocery and general merchandise sales. The company was founded in the year
1919. The company faces stiff competition with the other retail chain sectors such as Wal-
Mart, Costco. Therefore, it plans to implement an employee development program to enhance
the performance of the employees and cope up with the arising competition in the industry. In
order to maintain its competitiveness, it has adopted a training and development program for
the employees of the organization which is aimed to help them recognize the potential and
utilize their skills and knowledge to increase the performance of the organization as a whole.
Moreover, apart from the training and development programs, the company also provides in
monetary rewards for the employees including benefit packages, flexible working hours and
other profit sharing schemes. The training and development programs will enable the
employees of the organization to learn new concepts and implement the new concepts in the
workplace. The company has adapted various individual training which provides opportunity
to the employees to acquire knowledge and skills within a short period of time. The
knowledge to be gained will be used to improve the quality of the work and improve its
quality.

3EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL
2. Program objectives and rationale
The main objectives of training and development including increasing the
productivity of the organization, improving the quality of the work, performing the assigned
work on time and reducing the time, performing the work considering safety, reducing labour
turnover and employee retention, providing adequate opportunity to the employees to keep
their updated with the latest technology and the use of modern machinery, effective
management at all the levels of the organization.
Due to increased competition in the market, it is highly essential to increase
the productivity of the organization and reducing the cost of its operations. Therefore,
training program enables the organization to utilize the current capabilities of the employee.
The customers are conscious of the quality of product and services served to the organization,
therefore training and development program will enable the employees of the organization to
learn to reduce time which is one of the main objectives of the program. Training is also
important so that the employees are better able to handle the equipments provided and
therefore will b e able to provide better service at a reduced time.
The purpose of training and development program to modify the values and attitudes
of the employees in the organization, its objective is to support and train the subordinates and
to encourage a trusting relationship among the employees of the organization, it is to break
down the restricted approach of the supervisors and the mangers of the organization and to
accept and assign sufficient and adequate responsibility to the staffs and employees of the
organization. The development program is initiated to monitor the performance of the
individual and provide them feedback so that they can evaluate their performance and
undertake necessary changes required while performing the assigned job. The rationale
behind the objectives of the training and development programs is to make a positive