Tuesday, February 11, 2014

UPS Company


1.      They face new challenges daily; the company has started changing their leadership development strategy to address a broader culture of learning. Employee development has been a big part of UPS since day one. The company developed a new leadership development program to enhance online learning. This program gives employees training and development that is available 24/7 (Kalman, F. 2012).
       UPS has implemented the Jack Phillips’ ROI model. This model provides a way to predict the potential payoff, return on investment (ROI) training and human resources development initiative (Kalman, F. 2012).
        This model accesses 5 key areas reaction, satisfaction, and planned action, learning skills and knowledge gains, application and implementation, business impact measures business impact, and return on investment. The reaction, satisfaction, and planned action measures employee satisfaction and their plans on how they will use what they have learned. The learning skills and knowledge level uses tests, skill practices, role playing, simulations, and group evaluations to measure what they have learned. The behavior, application and implementation level 3 assesse if employees have applied the skills on the job. The business impact level measures how the business has improved after training. The return on investment level compares the monetary benefits from the program with the program costs (The Phillips Model for Evaluating Human Resource Development and Training).

2. The leadership programs focus on 9 core leadership competencies: integrity, customer focus, business and finance, perspective, managing results, communication and influence, decision making and problem solving, and development orientation and partnership. These competencies qualify for specific job development offerings. “It’s about getting the right training for the right people at the right time, so that we’re not painting everybody with the same brush,” said Mary Kay Kopp, UPS’ global learning network director 
(Kalman, F 2012 ).

3. Jovita Carranza started in UPS in 1976 as a part time clerk. He had strong work ethic and showed a great commitment to the company. The company was impressed with her work and she was promoted to planning manager in 1985. Then in 1987 she was promoted once again to human resource manager. She was division manager, and feeder operations. She became district operations manager just 2 years later. In 1999 she was selected to be president of the Americans Region. Currently she is vice president of Air Operations. Jovita is eager to take on new challenges daily. All the opportunities she has had she learned something new and serve as a platform for future endeavors. She has been at the company for 30 year and she feels that teamwork, interaction, and staff development are the most important. Through her achievements of determination, drive, and innovation she has been named the Hispanics Business Magazine’s Women of the Year (Hughes, R. L, & Ginnett, R 2013)

4. “It’s about getting the right training for the right people at the right time, so that we’re not painting everybody with the same brush,” said Mary Kay Kopp, UPS’ global learning network director The formalized training courses, informal mentoring, and coaching programs is dedicated to advancing the business leader development (Kalman, F 2012 ).




Words Cited

Hughes, R. L., & Ginnett, R. C. (2013). Leadership: enhancing the lessons of experience (Special ed.). Boston: McGraw-Hill Primis.






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