Implementing an employee career-development strategy: How to build commitment and retain employees
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 8 June 2015
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Citation
Davis, P.J. (2015), "Implementing an employee career-development strategy: How to build commitment and retain employees", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 23 No. 4, pp. 28-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/HRMID-05-2015-0066
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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