Question: Learning Team Assignment: Career Development and Succession Planning

Purpose of Assignment: The purpose of this assignment is to have learning teams study how to develop and grow an HR department by designing a career development plan for all HR department personnel with a corresponding succession plan for leaders in the department. To accomplish this, students must understand the importance of needs assessments in order to appropriately consider vacancies, readiness, and transition risks.

Resource: Succession Planning templates found on the Internet

You believe that a Career Development Plan for the HR Department would be very beneficial and could nicely feed into a succession plan for your department within the company.

Create an organizational plan for career paths in the HR Department and succession planning that considers vacancy, readiness, and transition risks for the next Human Resource Director.

Consider internal candidates and potential external candidates for future openings in your research.

Differentiate between organizational, group, individual, and job needs assessments.

Prepare a 15-slide presentation.

Design a new organization chart for the HR Department that contemplates company growth and the need for additional HR positions and include it in the organizational plan.

Format your organizational plan consistent with APA guidelines.

Use headings to appropriately signal the topics and keep your document organized.

Use a minimum of three in-text citation sources within your paper and identify them in your APA correctly formatted References page.