Help Employees Grow Into New Roles within Your Company
Chicago, Ill.—June 2, 2010—In the last year,
managers have asked employees to take on new responsibilities and
increase productivity as operations tightened in response to the
recession. With signs of economic improvement mounting, savvy companies
are turning an eye to growth by helping employees understand the career
opportunities that abound with their employers.
Chris Curran, president of Climax Metal Products Company, predicts
companies will shift focus back to recruitment and retention in the
coming year.
“Retention is something that hasn’t been on the radar for
many companies over the last 18 to 24 months, but that will change in
the future. In times like these, it is more important than ever that
companies are doing everything to retain their best
people.”
A new tool from the Power Transmission Distributors Association
(PTDA) helps executives communicate employees’ career options and
provides resources for supplementing training where necessary. The
comprehensive Career Progression Resource is an interactive resource for
managers and human resources professionals.
Starting with the Career Progression Ladder – a visual
organization chart of how employees can progress their industrial
distribution career – employees can review job descriptions and
salary ranges for nearly 50 jobs in industrial distribution. The
new Skills Sets and Training Matrix takes it a step further by
supplementing the ladder with a list of the skills needed for each job
and a list of training programs designed to build skills in each
category.
Developed for human resources, management and training professionals,
the Career Progression Resource is available at www.ptda.org/CareerProgression.
“This new resource provides a simple and convenient method for
communicating what skills are necessary for specific jobs within an
organization. It is very user friendly in that you can click on a
job within the organization chart and a list of descriptions for that
particular job will appear,” explained Curran, who serves as chair
of PTDA’s Employee Development Committee.
“Additionally, you can click further to see a description of the
skills associated with each given category.”
Founded in 1960, the Power Transmission Distributors Association
(PTDA) is the leading association for the industrial power
transmission/motion control (PT/MC) distribution channel. A
U.S.-based trade association, PTDA represents 198 power
transmission/motion control distribution firms that generate more than
$10 billion in sales and span 3,500 locations in North America and 11
other countries. PTDA members also include 187 manufacturers that
supply the PT/MC industry.
PTDA is dedicated to providing exceptional networking, targeted
education, relevant information and leading-edge business tools to help
distributors and manufacturers meet marketplace demands competitively
and profitably. For more information, visit www.ptda.org.
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