Professional growth plans: possibilities and limitations of an organizationwide employee development strategy
Professional growth plans, while not a new approach to employee development, are rarely mandated as standard supervisory practice. This article offers a study of widescale mandatory implementation of professional growth plans (PGPs) in Canadian school systems, as an approach to fostering continuous professional learning. Reported benefits include greater employee commitment to learning; increased employee focus on purposes for their own development; increased collegiality; and employees’ sense of self-affirmation. Tensions over control and direction, between organisational desires to guide emp... Show more
Authors: Fenwick, Tara J.
Published: San Francisco, California, Jossey-Bass, 2003
Resource type: Article
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