Improving the probability to reach over and touch World Class HRD.

( by H R u b i j a n t o )

It is quite important, first of all to lay down potentially platform for well-designed culturally HRD programs to render a worthwhile effort to the corporate development. Achievement will be more optimized if the programs take care and refer to the development of experiences of effective organizational performance. There is emerging evidence that a benchmark or best practice approach is highly effective as a management development tool because of the high degree of applicability to the workplace. Implementing benchmark of adaptive HRD programs will be an effective means of becoming more competitive in global markets.

In establishing World Class HRD most of the advanced companies conducting a consistent and continuous procedure in which HRD processes must be related and directed to the master business plan of the organization. Afterwards the management competencies which lead to successful managerial performance have to be applied in the design of the program. This knowledge management mechanism could not ignore the learning from important aspects of work experience assignments and relationship within the business organization.

It should be a priority to establish cooperation between business companies and training – assessment centers providers for more effective HRD. These providers may be professional institutes, consultants or universities which conduct selection of external candidate for management position, deciding if a person is ready for promotion to a management position or a higher management level and to identify management development needs. Their professional programs are directed to be more objective, fair and accurate assessment method than personal impressions, opinions or even performance appraisals which tell us only about abilities used in the present job.

Today’s manager profile needs a broad range of skills where IT knowledge increasingly be seen as a necessary but not sufficient condition for successful performance in global business positions. Important knowledge, skills or competencies which organizations will expect from their managers will include cross cultural interpersonal skills, sensitivity to foreign norms and values, understanding of differences in labor practices or customer relations, and ease of adaptation to unfamiliar environments.

A consistent manager should behave ethically while conducting his business in a globally competitive environment. The ethics governs all aspects of life, in conducting their business affairs or in carrying out their daily activities.

Code of conduct business ethics, sometimes referred to as management ethics within organizational culture, to support the effective achievement of company’s objectives.

This part of organization culture could be elaborated as a set of moral principles applied in organization that distinguish what is right from what is wrong, it is a normative domain prescribing what one should do or not to do, hoping it will support the achievement of business target. All executives of management may exhibit the committed ethical behavior, and this commitment can be socialized through a code of conduct organization ethics on policy statements.

And all company members should be encouraged to behave in a similarly ethical manner patronized by top executives, without diminishing their potential creativity and initiatives.

On the other side the organization can affect influence participants’ behavior in order to get higher degree of commitment through the organization’s leaders in conducting the norms of the ethical business policy statements.

Codes of conduct should be clear and simple to avoid misinterpretations among members and applicable in different conditions even it is vary from one industry to another.

Due to different life’s backgrounds people entering job with different values which is affected by family influences, peer influences, life experiences and physically - mentally development.

The corridor of tolerance of individual’s values and morals will also influence his or her ethical standards, a person with more honesty attitudes will behave differently from another who does not respect the existence of others.

Establishing a common corridor of tolerance is very important program to build a culture of change where the improved attitudes will stay in a wide space to adjust the organization policy from time to time.