CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

training may not carry any implication in the achievement of individual or organizational
strategic goals, except for re-gaining employee motivation, for a while.
Other factors highlighted by the executives of the category B, were employee
willingness, seniority , i.e., whoever is senior officer should first avail any training
opportunity available with in the organization, and need basis which implies that the
senior management would decide if an employee should go on any training or not. A
respondent working as senior conservator highlights their criteria as “seniority,
qualification and PR of the employee”.
At certain points any such nomination to the trainings by the senior management
was also viewed as doing out of the way favor to some employees. This means that such
kind of need based nomination was not carried out through proper procedure or with clear
objectives resulting in suspicion among the staff. An MBA coordinator of category B
organization highlighted their criteria as “random basis, need basis and faculty members
choice”. Another senior executive of the category B organization holding the position of
chief conservator highlighted their criteria as “Motivation, suitability and age limit of the
employees”. A director belonging to category B organization lists the selection criteria as
“seniority, personal biases and qualification”.
The list of criteria identified in category B organizations also included two more
factors i.e. up-gradation of skills and hit and trial. But the weightage of these
responses was negligible, which means these are not commonly followed criteria for this
purpose and may have come up as an individual perception of knowledge of the process.
As the criteria for selection was highlighted by a deputy conservator as “hit and trial,
likes and dislikes, sometimes job suitability and educational preference”.
Table # 1 also highlights the responses received from the executive of the
category identified as Learning Organizations.
In contrast to category B Organizations, the organizations belonging to the A
category shows somewhat different criteria set for staff selection to certain training. A
GM belonging to a category “A” organization comments about their employee skills up-
gradation as “usually new employees are selected for the trainings and their department
is asked to spare them for the purpose”. The responses received for this category show
that job relevance and skill up-gradation are more frequently chosen responses, which