Presentation on Professional Development - Human Behavior in Organization where I talk about the benefits of development. To tie into development, I also took a closer look at human behavior in organziation to see what attitudes, expections and performance help with driving personal development to the next level

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ERM Information Solutions
Professional Development –
Human Behavior in Organization
Presented by
Bill Burkey
4/16/2012

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Safety Moment – Drinking and Driving
• Impaired driving is often a symptom of a larger problem: alcohol
misuse and abuse.
• Alcohol-impaired motor vehicle crashes cost more than an estimated
$37 billion annually.
• In 2010, more than 10,000 people died in alcohol-impaired driving
crashes—one every 51 minutes.
• Problem drinkers have twice as many injury events per year and four
times as many hospitalizations for injuries.

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Safety Moment – Drinking and Driving
• In recent years, an estimated 1.9 million emergency department visits
were associated with substance misuse or abuse, with alcohol
continuing to be the primary substance that is misused or abused.
• Many drinkers are not aware that they are misusing or abusing alcohol.
According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
drinking more than 4 drinks on any day or more than 14 drinks per
week for men, or more than 3 drinks on any day or more than 7 drinks
per week for women is considered “at-risk” or “heavy” drinking.
• In April 2010, 870 people died in crashes in which the drivers had
blood alcohol concentrations of .08 grams per deciliter or higher, which
is illegal per se in every State in the United States.

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Outline
• Professional Development
Benefits to furthering your education
Tuition Assistance
• Human Behavior in Organization
Why it is important
What it means to you
What I’ve learned

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Professional Development
• Why Professional Development?
 Increase the competency and
effectiveness of an employee
» Boost morale
» Gain insight
» Learn a new skill
» Higher value to the company
Personal Reasons
» Strive to continuously learn
» Increased focus
» Greater opportunities
» Higher Salary

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Professional Development at ERM
• ERM has a Professional Development
section in the ERM Employee handbook
Page 47
• ERM recognizes the benefits derived
from personal growth and increased
work competence.
Will provide financial assistance to
employees interested in furthering
formal education which is aligned to
business needs.
All regular, FT employees are
eligible.

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Tuition Assistance
• Per IRS regulations, tuition reimbursement is only
available for courses directly related to improving skills of
the employee in his/her current position.
• Complete a tuition reimbursement request form prior to
course enrollment for approval by your supervisor.
• ERM will reimburse the employee 100% of the tuition, fees
and books.
Maximum of $6,000 per calendar year (based on
course completion date)
• One caveat to the tuition assistance
If employment with ERM voluntarily terminates within
12 months following course completion, you are
required to pay back any tuition payment during that
period.

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Earning Potential
Statistics from the U.S. Department of
Commerce state that people with a:
• High School Diploma - High school graduates can
expect, on average, to earn $1.2 million in lifetime
income.
• Bachelors degree - Those with a bachelor's degree,
$2.1 million over a lifetime:
High School to Bachelors - That average value of
a 4-year degree is increased earnings income of
$900,000, almost a million dollars.
• Masters degree - People with a master's degree earn
$2.5 million:
High School to Masters - Going from High school
to a masters degree is worth $1.3 million dollars.
Bachelors to Masters degree - A Masters is worth
$400,000 in additional lifetime income.

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Online Education
• Advantages of Online Education:
Degree Programs Offered
Lower Cost
Chose your own Study Time
Flexibility in Completing
Assignments
Balance a Job and Class
Avoid Adverse Weather
Conditions
Pacing
Effectiveness

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Human Behavior in Organization
• What is Organizational Behavior?
 Refers to the study of human behavior,
attitudes, expectations, and performance
within an organizational setting.
 Study of individuals and groups and their
interactions
 Examine theories of motivation,
communication, leadership, power and
change
• Organizational Behavior helps individuals
and mangers understand people better so
that productivity improves and
improvements can be achieved through
better management practices.
 Purpose of studying organizational behavior
is the help develop “people skills” that can
be effectively applied in a variety of
situations.
 Some of the same skills can be effectively
applied with a wide variety of groups and
individuals.

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Why Organizational Behavior?
• Behavior
 Individual behavior and differences
 Motivation content and process theories
 Evaluating, rewarding, and punishing
behavior
 Group behavior
 Inter-group behavior and managing conflict
 Power and politics
 Leadership
• Structure
 Organizational design
 Job design
• Process
 Communications
 Decision making

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What I’ve learned
• Better understanding and communicate effectively
about change, perception, diversity, motivation,
decision making, leadership and team and
organizational dynamics
• Effective teams and skills through participating in an
intact work team which leads to increasing a team’s
learning capacity.
• Understanding of how organizational design, reward
systems, values and behavior, and external factors
impact organizational performance
• Developed skills to identify problems quickly,
analyze them and find solutions creatively and apply
the diagnostic approach and system theory model.
• Understanding of the organization as a complex
system of interrelated parts, and identify
mechanisms to change and optimize organizational
effectiveness

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