Career Development

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Career Development

• New perspectives
• Per Stokstad

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• We humans have a strange nature. We use loads of
  our energy to climb the ladder of Success so that
  we can earn money to buy things that we dont
  really need in order to impress people who we
  dont really like.

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Classical Career Terms

• Development
• Management
• An individual
• The working life
• Systematic activities
• Connected to the job/ Education

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Career Terms

• Development can be defined as a vertical,
  hierarchical ascent in a company/ organisation. A
  career is a linear, age related progression which
  takes place within a relatively stable
  organisational framework.
• (Fletcher-96)

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• The term career describes an organisational form
  which is becoming more uncommon.

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A New Psychological Contract

• Composed of a mutual Understanding with regards
  to expectations, demands and promises between an
  employee and employer.
• (Rousseau 95)

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Career, More Than Management

• An individuals qualifications, interests, needs,
  attitudes and values vary.
• We are rooted differently, and Schein defines a
  number of these which categorise individuals on
  the background of self experienced preferences.
• Technical/ functional competence, management
  competence, security and stability, creativity,
  autonomy, independence, etc.

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Parallel to the Career Foundation

• Companies have the need for a diverse work force
  to carry out various types of jobs (tasks), and
  can not pressure the employees into a common
  pattern
• Must match this with the need for a similar wide
  range of ideal types of people to accomodate the
  various types of tasks which exist

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A New Career Term

• A career is not just a formalised development
  process for the few, but rather a life long
  development process for all
• The relationship between employees and the
  company has the character of a psychological
  contract
• A career is not just a question of supplying
  management qualifications, but also to provide a
  wide range of professional and personal
  development
• A career consists of all types of movement in an
  organisation

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A New Career Term.

• Career development is an experience based
  learning process
• Careers can not be limited to the working life,
  but rather crosses borders between the working
  and private life, life phases and life spheres
• Careers are not only visible and founded
  objective characteristics, but also a cognitive
  process, which creates meaning in life on the job

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Career Planning

• The individuals professional learning process
• Organisational level (internal mobility, become
  more effective)
• Individual level (choice of the future process)

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Why Career Planning?

• Purpose- Adapt people to jobs
• Why
• Motivation (professional development)
• Attractiveness (attract workers, strengthen and
  maintain internal work force)
• Visibility (look at the opportunities)
• Equal opportunity (women advance easier, for ex.
  through MS)

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Implementation - Requirements

• Companies of a certain size
• Not too low degree of work division and/ or
  specialisation
• Clear personnel policies- well developed
  personnel function
• Mature or experienced enterprise (MS, PDS, award
  system, systematic development programs, job
  analysis)

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Significance of the Companys Culture

• Create a culture which accepts and understands
  the objectives and definition of career planning

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Implementation - Strategy

• Clarify the purpose and objectives
• Provide for good and broad information
• Earmark resources for registering of existing
  career opportunities, career paths and to find
  out what the employee wants.
• Make adjustments when there are changes
• Evaluate

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Implementation

• Career paths (must be transparent, defined and
  documented, realistic, demand specification and
  specification of ones qualifications)
• Historical, organisational or activity
  orientation
• Two-way process (individual and organ.)
• Set demands to co-workers, managers and personnel

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Career Systems

• Monolithic system
• Monolithic and lateral system
• Network system