Spencer's Model of Human Resource Development

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An analysis of the Spencer's 10-step model for human resource management. It shows how Spencer suggested that an HR manager adopt an interrelated construct of 10 steps to use as an interconnected and interdependent tool with which to build the organization. It argues that these ten steps are essential for a HR administrator to use in order to gain developmental control over his or her organization. It concludes that, while the individuals under his care cannot be controlled, the destiny of the organization must be directed, and these ten steps form a basis on which to build a solid personal competency within the organization's staff.

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"At the heart of Spencer's model is the need for proactive, transformational leadership within the office of the HR administrator. The HR department needs to be able to lead the developmental needs of the entire organization. The HR department which formerly existed as a bureaucratic repository of official policies and standardization of HR dealings had gone the way of the dinosaur, or should. A HR department needs to address the needs of the human resources proactively, engaging them in order to lead the organization. While the other departments are task focused, that is, pursuing the tasks and goals of the organization, the HR department needs to look at itself as the department which is stoking the furnace of the organization's locomotive with quality people, who are developing the competencies needed to power the organization to greater heights. Unfortunately, Spencer says that too often the HR department places a high theoretical priority on HR development, but because of high pressure and high work loads, they settling into an approach to business which is to conform the individual staffers to the pressing demands of the today's organization rather than transform them into the people with skills for tomorrow's organization."

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