Human Resources in Pathways Leadership Development Program

Career

The Human Resources (HR) Pathways Leadership Development Program helps introduce new Honeywell Human Resources staff to the profession. This entry point delivers a complete understanding of our employee base and employee relations. For those entering Honeywell's Human Resources in a Generalist position, Pathways will teach them to be an employee advocate, ultimately learning and contributing to a broad array of human resource responsibilities.

Crucial to the Pathways Leadership Development Program is its developmental focus. This enables HR professionals to gain competencies that help them serve businesses and customers, and demonstrate knowledge. A rotational structure helps them acquire new skills and experiences across businesses, geographic regions, and functions. As you acquire additional skills through this experience, it elevates you from a supporting function to a leading role. As the level of complexity increases through the program, so will your responsibilities. This will lead to greater expectations to deliver on commitments and build your record of accomplishment.

In addition, HR Pathways provides exposure, encouraging participants to try new and different opportunities. Mobility is vital as an HR Pathways participant because you may serve in various locations in the USA and globally. HR Pathways participants learn the importance of leading by example, and learn how to manage their career. Involvement in HR Pathways means developing mentors, resources, and networks that become critical in one's career path.

Career Focus

Focusing on a functional specialty allows a Human Resource employee to develop a deeper level of understanding and competency in one or two particular human resource activities: compensation and benefits; staffing; performance management; talent management; and organizational development. As a functional specialist, you will become an expert to which peers turn for guidance. The challenge becomes communicating the knowledge you learn with those who may only periodically face these issues. Gaining functional experience in HR is a key part of career growth and developing stronger competencies as you navigate your career path.

Career Path

Though there are multiple paths for our HR staff to take, here is an example of a Compensation and Benefits Analyst who has been with Honeywell for two years and seven months. The Analyst began as an HR Generalist with the Transportation Systems Consumer Products Group in Greenville, Ohio. Her responsibilities included labor relations for approximately 250 hourly employees. During the first year, she obtained a Six Sigma Green Belt certification by streamlining the hourly staffing process.

Year two found her in Phoenix, Arizona, with the Aerospace Engines, Systems & Services (ES&S) Propulsion Systems enterprise, where she supported a population of 500 salaried aerospace engineers. She was involved with performance management, salary planning, employee relations, staffing, and management coaching. Other initiatives included creating four new career paths for engineering support job functions and working with the director of engineering to help him restructure his organization.

The beginning of year three found her in Prague, Czech Republic, on a short-term international assignment with Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Corporate. There she analyzed compensation and benefits in nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe; studied marketing trends to ensure Honeywell's competitiveness in the region; attracted and retained new talent; and served as a compensation resource.

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