The Importance Of Personal Development

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In today's work environment, personal development means that at any level of the organization, members assume more responsibility for continually expanding their skills and maintaining career readiness to be professionally effective. The amount of change we are challenged with in our jobs and careers requires us to periodically evaluate whether or not our skills are current, how the work we do in the organization may change, and what the changes may mean with regard to further skill development on our part. New technology, government regulations, organizational policies and procedures, re-design of work and jobs, and meeting customer expectations are all changing and becoming more complex. All of this change personally challenges us to develop…show more content…
They presented a view of work that has evolved, and continues to evolve, with the explosion of technology and the increasing importance of knowledge. Classical organizations have relied on the intelligence of those at the top of the organization and the obedience of everyone else in the various lower layers of the organization. This fundamental building block of the classical organizational structure has had a profound influence on what "job" and "career" have meant to people over the last century: -fixed procedures and job descriptions would set the stage for how people did their jobs. Doing your job according to these descriptions and procedures usually meant success. The boss managed the relationship between the employee, the job description and methods defined by the organization to do the job. -personal success in the classical organization was associated with a lifetime of career promotional steps, leading through the various levels of the bureaucratic…show more content…
The new organizational context fosters individual contribution and more self-direction and personal responsibility. Therefore: -Organizational relationships move from dominance and submission to networking and cooperation. -The need to discipline ourselves to what the market tells us will demand more self-management. -There will be much more emphasis on collective intelligence and not just following what the people at the top of the organization say. -Organizations will be much more "entrepreneurial," driven be the needs of customers both inside and outside the organization that seek the services of the various work units. -The use of information technology and the development of information technology skills will enhance the ability to progress in job and career in the future. -The new work arrangement is "I will have a job as long as I serve my customers better than anyone else does or can." -People will move from having one job in a lifetime to many jobs in a lifetime. -Job security will be based on spending some time on gaining new skills to help the organization meet its goals. More organizational support will go to continuing

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