This course includes two case studies.

This course includes two case studies. These exercises are designed to actively involve you in human resource management decision making and to help you apply the concepts covered in the course to complex real-world situations. The case studies provide practice reading and give you experience analyzing employee competencies, planning strategic talent development strategies, and forecasting workforce needs. These exercises also provide practice communicating your reasoning in a professional manner.

Case Study
You may know McCormick & Company from its flavorings and spices that enhance the taste of appetizers, main dishes, and desserts. You should also know that training and development play a strategic role at McCormick & Company. Learning is driven by the company strategy. The company’s main strategies include growing sales, fostering innovation, managing the cost base, and planning for succession.

To ensure that training and development are strategic, the director of learning and development has positioned the training department as a team of performance consultants who serve the needs of the business. Also, McCormick & Company has emphasized teaching at all levels of the organization, with the goal of making the company more agile and able to adapt to change and cope with the loss of expertise due to the retirement of baby boomers. Teachers include trainers and all employees with supervisory responsibility, regardless of their level.

McCormick & Company’s board of directors will provide additional funding for training and development initiatives if a business case is made for additional financial resources.

Prompt
To answer the prompt below, utilize the following readings:

“Growing Talent and Sales at McCormick”: http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/227019996 (Attached)
“Gap Analysis Revisited”:
http://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=cookie,ip,url,cpid&custid=shapiro&db=bth&AN=53096203&site=ehost-live (Attached)
McCormick & Company’s website: www.mccormick.com
If you were the Vice President of Learning for McCormick, how would you approach training and development? Your paper should include the following:
Evaluate the types of training and development initiatives would you create
Design metrics you would use to collect information that allows you to determine and measure the effectiveness of your initiatives
Defend for or against having employees, who are not training or learning experts, teach others as a means to making training and learning more strategic