1: Chapters
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- 1.2: Topic 1- Professional Responsibility and Relationships Between Career Development Professionals and clients
- Topic 1 provides scenarios that ask students to consider the role of professional responsibility and relationships when working as career development professionals. The differences in clients and/or workers must be considered at all times when providing professional services. Career development strategies and concepts changes along with workers and workplace policies.
- 1.3: Topic 2- Providing Career Services Online
- Topic 2 provides scenarios that ask students to develop an understanding of how technology influences changes in ways to develop employees or potential employees in their careers. It also suggests that students consider the digital divide and how access to technology or lack thereof can effect their ability to provide appropriate career services.
- 1.4: Topic 3- Using Technology and Social Media in Human Resource and Workforce Development (HRWD)
- As technology and social media have become essential to communication and collaboration among workers, Topic 3 provides scenarios that ask students to explore barriers that can occur when not all workers understand or feel comfortable using technology an social media. The rapid changes that occur with technology require HRWD professionals to remain diligent in their commitment to understanding both the effect and use of technology on people.
- 1.5: Topic 4- Supervising, Training, and Teaching Employees
- Topic 4 provides scenarios where students can learn how motivational theories play a role in the development of employees. There are many motivational theories that play a role in supervising, training, and teaching employees. Understanding how to influence employees’ motivation is central to building successful relationships with employees for organizational success.
- 1.6: Topic 5- Ethics of Mentoring
- Topic 5 introduces scenarios where mentoring and ethics can be explored and considered as complementary to each other. HRD professionals can develop competencies to complement the skills needed to successfully develop employees. Both the employees and HRD professionals should engage in continuous learning and development. Understanding historical context with integrity and honor helps HRD professionals be true to the career that they have chosen.
- 1.7: Topic 6- All Employees’ Access to Career Development, Training and Development, and Organization Development Activities
- Topic 6 provides scenarios that ask students to examine their role in the access to training and development that HRWD professionals provide to all employees. Exclusionary tactics are common in organizations and their effect on organizational climate can determine the success or failure of developmental activities and initiatives. Having a well-designed, transparent strategy can help HRWD professionals in all aspects of employee development.
- 1.8: Topic 7- Power and Privilege Dynamics
- Topic 7 provides scenarios that require students to acquire an understanding of how power and privilege can be misused and/or misunderstood. The appropriate use of power and privilege is essential for a healthy organizational culture where all employees feel valued. The contributions of all employees should collectively contribute to the success of the organization.
- 1.9: Topic 8- Authenticity of Allies
- Topic 8 introduces students to the concept of allies for historically marginalized groups in the workplace. It can be argued that allies are supposed to be positive influences on the people they purport to help. However, there are fine lines that allies tend to cross when they covertly or overtly diminish the credentials of those they are seeking to help. One wonders if they even know the meaning of help and its purpose.
- 1.10: Topic 9- Ethics of Career Development and Training and Development Assessments
- Topic 9 allows students to apply concepts to better understand how assessments can be both detrimental and positive to making successful hires and career transitions when used appropriately. HRWD professionals must consider all the consequences that can occur prior to using an assessment. Making the right hiring decisions influences employee morale. Hiring the wrong employee at any level of the organization can be problematic.
- 1.11: Topic 10- Protected Class Bias
- Topic 10 requires that students have an understanding of protected class groups in the workplace and learn how discrimination of these groups is illegal and in many instances unethical. There are many real-life cases in the empirical research and professional literature of discrimination which have led to the creation of all the laws and mandates that protect these groups of employees in the workplace.
- 1.12: Topic 11- Covert Conditioning of Girls/Women Away from Male Dominated Fields
- Historically, women and underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) technical careers. The problems usually begin within the educational system. Without the proper educational foundation, it is difficult for girls to pursue higher education that will provide them the skills necessary to succeed as women in the workplace. Without women in technical positions both in school and the workplace, it is difficult for women to overcome barriers to entry in STEM careers.
- 1.13: Topic 12- Educational Opportunity Bias
- Educational opportunity bias has long been a problem in throughout out the world, particularly for girls, minorities, and low income individuals. Education is sometimes seen as the great equalizer for opportunities in the workplace and society. Although education can be beneficial, the bias that exists in educational systems can create irreparable problems for individual students and society.
- 1.14: Topic 13- Occupational Segregation and Promotional Ceilings
- Occupational segregation occurs in many ways. Topic 13 provides students with the opportunity to discuss ways that occupational segregation is used to derail the promising careers of employees. Without a cohesive work environment, where all employees feel integral to the organization’s success, organizations see high turnover among high potential employees.
- 1.15: Topic 14- Confidentiality
- Topic 14 allows for the discussion of confidentiality and how the lack of maintaining confidentiality can be detrimental to organizational success. Building trust with employees is hard work that can be easily destroyed when confidentiality is violated. Inadvertent violations of confidentiality are still violations that are difficult to rectify.
- 1.16: Topic 15- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Topic 15 provides scenarios that provide students an opportunity to examine problems with diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. There is no law that requires diversity in the workplace. There are laws that can lead to diversity, equity, an inclusion, but none that specifically requires diversity. Diversity just means difference. It must be defined in context to be applicable for use to achieve equity and inclusion.
- 1.17: Topic 16- Artificial Intelligence (AI) and HRD
- Topic 16 allows students to discuss scenarios of how artificial intelligence (AI) and HRD are linked. The expertise of AI is not ethically sound, and the human expertise of HRD professionals can alleviate some of these concerns. Understanding the gap between HRD and explainable AI is important as technology becomes more integrated into workplace activities.