Describe HOW career progression, and related workforce practices enable employees and the organization to achieve HIGH PERFORMANCE.

Within your response, include answers to the following questions:

Area 5.1c.  Hiring and Career Progression

(1) HOW do you identify characteristics and skills needed by potential employees?

(2) HOW do you RECRUIT, hire, and retain new employees?

HOW do you ensure that the employees represent the diverse ideas, cultures, and thinking of your employee hiring community?

(3) HOW do you accomplish EFFECTIVE succession planning for leadership and management positions?

HOW do you manage EFFECTIVE career progression for all employees throughout the organization?

Notes:

N1. “Employees” refers to your organization’s permanent, temporary, and part-time personnel, as well as any contract employees supervised by your organization. Employees include team leaders, supervisors, and managers at all LEVELS. Contract employees supervised by a contractor should be addressed in Category 6.

N2. “Your organization’s work” refers to HOW your employees are organized or organize themselves in formal and informal, temporary, or longer-term units. This might include work teams, PROCESS teams, project teams, CUSTOMER action teams, problem-solving teams, centers of excellence, functional units, remote workers (e.g., at home), cross-functional teams, and departments—self-managed or managed by supervisors. “Jobs” refers to responsibilities, authorities, and tasks of individuals. In some WORK SYSTEMS, jobs might be shared by a team.

For additional description of this Area, see 5.1 Work Systems Description.

2005 Criteria Items: 1.1 - 1.2 - 2.1 - 2.2 - 3.1 - 3.2 - 4.1 - 4.2 - 5.1 - 5.2 - 5.3 - 6.1 - 6.2 - 7.1 - 7.2 - 7.3 - 7.4 - 7.5 - 7.6 - P.1 - P.2

Areas: 1.1a-1.1b-1.2a-1.2b-1.2c-2.1a-2.1b-2.2a-2.2b-3.1a-3.2a-3.2b-4.1a-4.1b-4.2a-4.2b-4.2c-5.1a-5.1b-5.1c-5.2a-5.2b-5.3a-5.3b-6.1a-6.2a-6.2b-7.1a-7.2a-7.3a-7.4a-7.5a-7.6a-P.1a-P.1b-P.2a-P.2b-P.2c