Module 1 Discussion Topic
Kareco, Inc. is a medium-sized medical equipment company
with about 1,000 employees distributed between sales, marketing, customer
service, operations, product development, and administrative support (e.g., HR,
accounting, etc.). Most of their training and development needs have been
provided by 3rd party contractors in the past. Now, the CEO has come to you for
advice about how to bring training back into the organization. Primarily, she
is concerned about structure: should training & development functions be
centralized (to HR or to a training team) or decentralized (to management and
other department leaders)?
What do you suggest? Take a position, being sure to explain
your reasoning and any additional assumptions you must make about the
characteristics of Kareco.
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by 11:59
PM EST/EDT Sunday.
Specifically:
Where do your ideas and your peers’ ideas contrast? Why?
What points did your peers make that might convince you that
their suggested structure would be more effective?
What did your peers neglect to mention that would add to
their discussion?
