„Career professional in organization”

Liliana Gałka Agnieszka Leśniak

University of Rzeszow All rights reserved

I. Career’s definitions II. Theories of an indvidual development III. Levels of career development IV. Tools of career managment

Plan of presentation

Taking subject’s bibliography into consideration, CARRER has got a lot of meanings.

1) Generaly, by CARRER we think about a special type of job or profession. It means that in one kind of job there is a specific „career path”. The employee knows what he shall do in every step of his work’s life. It’s a conception of D. Ahal.

Career - definitions

2) In order hand, CAREER is considered as a social promotion in organizational level. This is connected with changing of work position (for example: one’s of normal worker becomes a manager) or begining a new job in other organization with greater prestige (for example: the worker changes the work place –it means a movement to another company).

3) H. Lopata says that „CAREER” is persived as sequence of experience connected with road life. By „experience” in this case, we understand aspirations, satisfaction, and see yourself like a fulfilled person in life (for example: bisnesman or housewife).

But in Poland „CAREER” can be recived in a positive or negative aspect.

The first one relates to the dimension of profession and lifestyle what is very important in our generation, especially for young and educated people who enter to the job market.

By the way, word ”CAREER” has got also bad significance. The person who does nothing in a work aspects and gets a lot of profits of that (things like: grants, awards, praises etc.) is called idle. In other words it is a person who used to use the work of another people to gain his own benefits. The name of that person in Poland sounds: ”KARIEROWICZ”.

In according to the given proposals, we define the term „CAREER” as a process of obtaining practical and professional experience, and also implementing the actions leads to achieve satisfaction over a lifetime.

Majority of individual development theories says that life of person is like a cycle who is built from the another following steps. Which are the special units of human development.

Individual development theories

All of those steps have two intentional meanings:● building step● temporary step

They have a the same significance. All of them are conected with edge of persons.

The needs are the basis individual separation of another trend in the theory of career development. This trend is based on the one hand on the achievements of the theory of needs, on the other hand the achievements of personality theory and can be considered as a complementary way of explaining an individual's career.

Phase of life and the needs of an individual

With regard to the needs theory there are formulated the following claims:- Needs met at the right time and at the appropriate level- The need of a higher order, if they met occasionally- Met the needs of a large time delay or at a lower level than experienced will become subconscious motivation factors for an individual.

This process includes:

I. Career planingII. Career management

Levels of career development

The relationship between human resource planning and

career development

It is a special racionalized process of an individual action, which want to get promotion, by having control on its activitis, and that person see the future situation depended of its own features and behaviour and set goals that must beachieved.

Planning of career - definition

As a result of planning treatments is to formulate specific action plans in relation to staff (such as: recruitment, allocation, training, studies plans, etc.) in order to achieve the objectives laid down. However, specific action plans are input in the process of careers management.

Professional career management of employees requires special selection and preparation, and knowledge about all employees. This is the activity of an organization with its own objectives and instruments. In practice, however, is not always extracted in a personal activity and it can be variously defined.

Definition of career management

Research shows that most Polish enterprises defines a “professional career” as a development of qualifications. Almost as often a “professional career” means taking over a higher position in the organization. Significantly less a “professional career” is seen through the prism of increase in earnings*.

*conclusions from reserch of book Miś A., Koncepcja rozwoju kariery zawodowej w organizacji

1. Workers displacement matrix2. Workers career paths3. SWOT analysis for Human Resources4. Coaching

Tools of career management

In conclusion it was introdused the topic of professional career in the organisation: some definitions of career individual theory of career levels of professional career (career planning and career management) tools of career management.

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