Developing Human Resources (Distinction Criteria) - Harvey's Medical Devices Ltd.

Human Resources
(Distinction Criteria)

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
An overview of a proposed programme and underpinning evidence which justifies the
business case for our expenditure...........................................................................................1
Scheme of work and timeline. A graphic outline of the training programme, handed to the
panel at the start......................................................................................................................4
A summary of the costing for your training programme........................................................8
An explanation of how your programme is evaluated............................................................8
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
References:.....................................................................................................................................11
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In the contemporary business environment is highly dynamic and competitive in nature due to
the changing consumer expectations, fast pace advancements of technology, diversity of
employees and much more (Norberg, 2019). All these changes in the business environment are
leading to the significant changes into the business functional duties. In order to succeed in such
business environment, the most important thing for the organisation is to focus on the learning
and development of the human resource. The Human Resource managers has a major
responsibility to keep the human resource motivated in order to have smoothly running of
operations. This report is based on the Harvey's Medical Devices Ltd (Harvey's) began
manufacturing medical devices in 1953, initially for the clinical market and later for the growing
consumer sector. The medical equipment, such as blood pressure monitors, thermostats, and
blood glucose test kits, were technology companies, but since the 2000s, newcomers have seized
customer base with appealing new designs. The report is the proposal for the leadership
development programme which aims to speed up the lead times of the production of the products
of the company. For this report will include the overview of proposed programme, scheme of
work and timelines. The reports will also demonstrate the costing of the training programme. In
the end there is key discussion on the method to evaluate the programme.
MAIN BODY
An overview of a proposed programme and underpinning evidence which justifies the business
case for our expenditure
Harvey's Medical Devices Limited is a medical device manufacturer that aims to develop
or implements a learning and development program to expedite lead times for developing new
products and smooth product flow into production sites such as Singapore and Sweden. The
leadership development program is designed to maintain the company's competitive advantage in
the consumer medical device market (Galvão, Marques and Ferreira, 2019). Founded in 1953 as
a manufacturer of medical devices for the clinical market and later the growing consumer
market, the company is considered the market leader, but as new entrants emerge, the market
share increases with attractive Newly designed and distributed medical devices. The company
has 500 employees at its headquarters in Birmingham, 400 in Singapore and 300 in its
production sites in Sweden. In 2019, the company observed a significant increase in sales due to
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the market intelligence department, but at the same time there was resistance to product
development. At such times, The Company’s partners believe that by implementing a leadership
development program, the company will be able to alleviate this problem by accelerating product
development, which will also help bring new products to market faster. With the help of
leadership and development experts, the company aims to deliver an effective management
development program between April 2022 and August 2022. The four main focus areas of the
leadership development program will be change management, agile definition and team-based
work, leadership in an international environment and the value of market intelligence to all
Harvey employees. For the leadership development programme, Harvey's Medical Devices
Limited will propose participants to include 7 executive directors, 20 senior managers in the
product development business area and 9 other department heads. In the suggested Learning &
Development Programme Managers of organizations will have varying experience from novice
to expert level as your jobs will include finance, IT, sales, market intelligence, procurement and
logistics, as well as learning product development departments such as market intelligence,
internal electronic material development Tool making and production lines and more. The four
key areas of business of the Harvey’s medical devices are discussed below:
Managers tend for different management roles based on the company's leadership
development program to increase the effectiveness of the programme. Change management is a
technique that helps company managers understand previous models and analyze gaps between
future needs and current products (Quirk, 2018). Change management is the 4 most important
techniques to help Harvey's Medical Devices managers understand change requirements. With
the help of some specific change management model, Harvey’s Medical Devices Ltd can
effectively accept the change and improve the productivity level.
Harvey's Medical Devices Limited's leadership development programme also focuses on
introducing agility and teamwork into the product development process, as these are considered
the most appropriate strategies for workforce planning that directly impact employee
performance and efficiency. As evidence of the spending company that aims to invest in this
specific leadership development program, agile development methodologies will help Harvey's
Medical Devices Limited to develop value in their product development through rapid product
development and teamwork will lead to smooth as well as Goods flow quickly at the production
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