GE Citizenship Case Study

  • Key elements to
    GE’s learning culture include active experimentation and action-based
    learning, as the talented people GE attracts and recruits apply
    themselves to unravel the most challenging problems of the future. GE
    leaders are evaluated on how well they guide the professional growth of
    their people, providing counsel and goal setting. Leaders are
    responsible for ensuring functional competence and overall business
    excellence of their teams, in an operating climate that emphasizes
    unyielding integrity.
  • Use GE’s website to write a
    paper discussing how training, development, and learning programs have
    contributed to GE’s success Review the following information about GE’s
    Training and Development to help get you started:

Leadership and Learning Programs – to go to the website click on the links below

  • Entry-level Leadership Programs:?
    GE’s Corporate Entry-level Leadership Programs offer recent college
    graduates prized development opportunities that combine real-world
    experience with formal classroom study. Through a series of rotating
    assignments — typically over a period of two years — young professionals
    receive accelerated professional development, world-class mentors, and
    global networking that cuts across GE’s businesses.
  • Experienced Leadership Programs:?
    Experienced professionals who wish to accelerate their careers find
    fitting opportunity in our Experienced Leadership Programs. The programs
    position high-potential talent in collaboration with some of the top
    innovators in their fields, offering intensive on-the-job development in
    the areas of corporate audit, human resources and sales and marketing.
  • John F. Welch Leadership Development Center:?
    At GE, learning is a cultural force and Crotonville is its epicenter.
    For more than 50 years, the legendary John F. Welch Leadership Center
    has been at the forefront of real-world application for cutting-edge
    thinking in organizational development, leadership, innovation and
    change. Established in 1956, the 53-acre corporate learning campus was
    the first of its kind in the world.? The Crotonville campus attracts the
    world’s brightest and most influential minds in academia and business.
    Every year, for thousands of our people from entry-level employees to
    our highest-performing executives, a journey to Crotonville is something
    of a pilgrimage — a transformative learning experience that, for many,
    becomes a defining career event.?

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

  • Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
  • Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
  • Include cover page and reference page.
  • At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
  • No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
  • Use
    at least three references from outside the course material, one
    reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other
    materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the
    three reference requirement.
  • Cite all reference material
    (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the
    paper and list on a reference page in APA style.