Human Resource Management: Career Development

Abstract

This paper mainly emphasizes on career development which is gaining much importance in recent times in order to retain skilled, competent and result oriented people in the organization. This paper invites special attention in this area of organizations.PEOPLE ARE THE SOURCES of all productive effort in organizations. Organizational effectiveness depends on the performance of people working in organizations. Better people achieve better results. As a part of human resource management, every organization should acquire and retain skilled, competent, and motivated employees, because the full potential of human resources needs to be achieved for the growth of the organization. For the purpose of retaining skilled employees, management should assist individuals to plan their careers with realistic information about career opportunities that exist within a particular organization. Career planning is a recently developed phenomenon and organizations are nowadays looking HRD in this new angle.The tremendous growth of organizations in recent times due to technological improvements and tough competition in global market necessitates the organizations not only to select the right type of staffs, but also to retain them in the organizations. The dynamic and growth oriented employees should be allowed to grow through career development programs because the high turnover of such potential staff leads to great loss in terms of cost, quality and productivity. Dougles T. Hall Says career asThe individually perceived sequence of attitudes and behavior associated with the work related experiences and activities over the span of the person's life.' Thus, a career refers to both attitude and behavior and it is work related. Each person's career is unique. It has an upward mobility i.e. making more money, having more responsibility, acquiring more status and power.

Statistical Study to Support Integration of Engineering Graduates’ Career Decisions and Basic Engineering Programs

“…If this process is carried out properly, it will bring maximum long-run benefits to both the organization and the individual employee. However, increasing environmental instability, demographic shifts, changes in technology and heightened international or global competition have created imminent role for human resource planners considering the fact that recruitment and selection process have become more complex in the present time [9,19].Human planning process will identify the strength, and weakness of existing employees. HRP is a decision-making process that combines three important activities are [20, 21]:-i. Identifying and acquiring the right number of people with the proper skills.…”

“…Graduates also should attempts to update and empower their knowledge to acquire or carry on the desired positions. A comparison is conducted between graduates appeal (desire/need) and academic programs Figs (8), and (9) shows high fraction of engineering sciences for graduates throughout the curriculum for different disciplines over three decades (eighties, nineties and last decade period) [(91.4%), (95%),(88%)] compared to general sciences [(20%, 8.3%, 17.8%)] respectively. Although the practical studies are existed in curriculum by[(1.4%, 6.6%, and 7.1%)] for the three studied decades respectively .However, further is required to develop their practical skills and, abilities.…”