Assessment 1 HRMT20024: Analysis of Career Management Strategies

This report analyzes two articles related to career management and employee development in the context of HRM. The first article explores the impact of career management practices on employee performance within high-performing organizations, utilizing methodologies such as fsQCA and SEM. It highlights the importance of development and supportive practices, individual responsibility, and tailored career plans. The second article investigates the potential of online courses (MOOCs) for enhancing employee learning and development, examining literature and case studies. The report summarizes the objectives, methods, arguments, and conclusions of both articles, emphasizing their contribution to understanding how career management programs and learning initiatives can improve employee performance. It underscores the interconnectedness of career management, learning, and development in fostering organizational success.

HRMT20024 Assessment 1
Week 9
Learning, development and career management
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 Article 1:
De Vos, A., & Cambré, B. (2017). Career
Management in High‐Performing Organizations: A
Set‐Theoretic Approach. Human resource
management, 56(3), 501-518
 Article 2:
Park, S., Jeong, S., & Ju, B. (2018). Employee
learning and development in virtual HRD:
Focusing on MOOCs in the workplace. Industrial
and Commercial Training, 50(5), 261-271.
References of your two
articles

 Objective
◦ The objective of the given article is to make use of
various studies and literature available in order to
understand the impact of the career management as
adopted by the organization on the overall
performance of the employees.
 Method
◦ The methodology used in the article involved
conducting surveys with around 293 organization's
directors. The analysis style which was used was the
fuzzy set qualitative comparative which is also known
as the fsQCA. This was used along with the SEM which
is the structural equation modelling.
Article : Career Management in
High Performing Organizations

 Argument
◦ The findings of the first study helped in understanding that the
development practices as well as supportive practices can be
associated with high performance. Secondly, along with it, the
fsQCA helped in understanding that along with these practices,
I-deals and individual responsibility are crucial. Moreover , it
was also argued that the different individuals should be allowed
the freedom to choose their own management practice.
 Conclusion
◦ The study helped in the understanding that incorporating the
career program does contribute towards a high performance
and that the organizational members need to make use of a
career plan which is designed as per the employee to improve
the performance of the firm.
Article 1

 Objective
◦ The objective of the given paper is to explore the capability
of the online courses to be used as a medium to enhance the
employee`s learning and development. This shall help in the
understanding of whether these courses can be used to train
the employees or not.
 Method
◦ The method which was used to assess the working and the
findings related to the mass online courses which are
available on the internet are analysis of literature using
qualitative methods and a review of various peer reviewed as
well as non peer reviewed, books and chapters was made
which were published between the date of 2008 and 2018.
Article 2 (Learning and
Development)

 Argument
◦ After summarizing around 18 cases to reflect on the use of the
online courses to set a general background for training and
development or for the career development , it was stated that
when the organization does make use of the online learning
course then they must use a selection criteria in order to
understand which course will be more suitable for its employees.
 Conclusion
◦ Hence, the study has thereby highlighted the use of the online
courses in the organizations and thereby concluded that not all
but some of them possess the capability to support the aspects
of virtual HRD in order to facilitate learning and development in
the workplace.
Article 2

The articles used in the given study talk about
career management used along with learning and
development. In the field of HRM, these topics hold
relevant importance whereby it is stated that in
order to improve the employee performance,
learning and development along with a career
management program needs to be provided to
them. Moreover, the main relationship between the
articles is that they hint at the same learning that in
order to improve the performance of the employee,
they need to be provided with adequate career
management programs and training.
Contribution of articles to the
topic