Implementing an employee career-development strategy : How to build commitment and retain employees
Purpose – Demonstrates how to build commitment and retain employees through a career-development strategy. Design/methodology/approach – Shows how organizations often mismanage career development and how they could do better. Findings – Describes the five “Ps” of poor career development, the foundations of a career-development strategy and a number of career-development activities. Practical implications – Highlights the importance of beginning early, communicating clearly, partnering employees, facilitating internal movements and taking action frequently. Social implications – Advances the view that employee disengagement and high employee turnover are expensive and often avoidable. Originality/value – Argues that the lack of career development continues to be a major cause of employee dissatisfaction and turnover and shows how this can be avoided.
Year of publication: |
2015
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Authors: | Davis, Paul J |
Published in: |
Human Resource Management International Digest. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1758-7166, ZDB-ID 2082534-1. - Vol. 23.2015, 4, p. 28-32
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Publisher: |
Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
Subject: | Motivation | Recruitment | Retention | Career development | Employee development |
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