a. Duty of General Manager Personnel Department and Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services. The General Manager Personnel Department, with the cooperation of the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services and the heads of all departments (except Harbor, Airports and Water and Power), is hereby directed to maintain a general training and development program for all employees, a management development program for executives, middle level management and staff personnel, and other programs to train and improve the performance of City employees. Development and training may take the form of formalized training courses on employee time, either fee or under tuition reimbursement, seminars and workshops on City time, City-sponsored or provided courses on City time, rotation or exchange programs, special assignments, supervisory coaching and counseling, apprentice and work study programs, or any other appropriate method.
b. Annual Review of Program. To maintain such programs, the Personnel Department shall, with the cooperation of each department head, annually review the existing programs and revise and update them as required. Programs shall include the following features.
1. General Employee Development and Training. Specific proposals on an individual and group basis to improve performance, identify promotional opportunities, and enhance the opportunities for promotion of non-management employees to management and other higher level jobs.
2. Management Development and Training. Identification of the key management jobs in the department, and
(a) Identification of the sources of qualified replacements, individually and organizationally;
(b) Specific individual proposals for improving the performance of incumbents and for broadening the experience and increasing the potential of replacements;
(c) Identification of incumbents who are performing in an outstanding competent manner, with evidence of such competence, and proposals for recognition of such competence.
c. Implementation of the Program.
1. Developing a Departmental Program. Representatives of the Personnel Department shall meet periodically with the departmental training committee or individual designated as training coordinator, shall review the development needs of employees of the department as related to organizational objectives, and shall draft a plan for the implementation of a training and development program to satisfy these needs.
d. Records and Reports. Each departmental training committee or coordinator shall annually on September 1, report through its normal channels to the Personnel Department on the employee training and developmental programs held during the preceding fiscal year. Progress will be reviewed by the General Manager Personnel Department and the Director of the Office of Administrative and Research Services. The General Manager Personnel Department shall report to the Mayor and the City Council annually on January 1 on the progress of all departments as of June 30 each year.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 131,755.
Amended by: Ord. No. 134,983; Ord. No. 143,615, Eff. 8-19-72; Ord. No. 173,308, Eff. 6-30-00, Oper. 7-1-00; Subsec. a., Ord. No. 184,264, Eff. 5-5-16.