Career Paths Charting Courses to Success for Organizations and Their Employees

by Carter, Gary W.; Cook, Kevin W.; Dorsey, David W.

• ISBN13: 9781405177337
• ISBN10: 1405177330
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-26
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Career Paths provides practical tools and tips for developing and implementing career paths in the workplace. Discusses available resources organizations can use in developing career paths Includes a sample career path guide Describes how career path efforts can be integrated with recruitment and hiring, strategic planning, succession management, employee development, and retention programs Explains how to improve employee retention using career paths and how to integrate career paths into employee training and development systems Provides conceptual and practical toolkits for constructing career paths Discusses dimensions that impact career paths, such as employee movement and the nature of employee expertise

Author Biography

Dr. Carter is a Vice President of Personnel Decisions Research Institutes (PDRI), a leading human capital consulting firm. He is the leader of human capital consulting services in PDRI’s Washington, DC office. Dr. Carter has over 20 years of experience designing and implementing human capital systems and processes. He has designed career paths and talent management tools integrated with career paths for many clients.

Dr. Cook has more than 12 years of experience in design, development, implementation and evaluative research of assessment and development methodologies at all employee levels. Currently, he focuses on the development and global launch of executive level assessment and development capabilities as well as direct support of multinational implementations.

Dr. Dorsey is a Vice President at Personnel Decisions Research Institutes (PDRI). He has more than 15 years of experience in human capital consulting and applied research and development. He has conducted innovative work in the areas of performance measurement, career management, and training and development. Dr. Dorsey has produced numerous professional book chapters, articles, and presentations, and he is the recipient of multiple research awards.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
What are Career Paths?	p. 2
The Goal of This Book	p. 19
Overview	p. 21
A Conceptual Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths	p. 23
Career Path Attributes	p. 26
Career Path Patterns	p. 27
Outcomes	p. 29
The Bottom Line	p. 31
A Practical Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths	p. 33
Sources and Methods	p. 34
Past	p. 34
Present	p. 37
Future	p. 37
A Note about the Special Role of Interviews and Focus Groups	p. 38
How to Construct Career Paths	p. 39
Initial Steps	p. 39
Sequential List of Positions or Roles	p. 47
Qualifications	p. 53
Critical Developmental Experiences	p. 54
Competencies that are Accrued, Strengthened, or Required	p. 56
Career Success Factors	p. 60
Other Information	p. 63
Explicit Focus on Movement	p. 64
Promoting Alignment	p. 64
Assessment of Personal Attributes and Career Paths	p. 64
Implementation Tips	p. 65
The Bottom Line	p. 67
Integrating Career Paths into Talent Management Systems I: Recruitment, Hiring, Retention, Promotion, and Employee Development	p. 69
Connecting the Employee to the Organization	p. 69
Engaging the New Workforce	p. 72
Recruitment and Hiring	p. 73
Retention	p. 80
Promotion	p. 81
Development Planning and Execution	p. 83
The Bottom Line	p. 89
Integrating Career Paths into Talent Management Systems II: Strategic Workforce Planning, the Early Identification and Development of Executive Talent, and Succession Management	p. 91
Keeping an Eye on the Big Picture	p. 91
Strategic Workforce Planning	p. 92
Identifying and Developing Early-Career, High-Potential Leadership Talent	p. 95
Who Are Our High Potentials?	p. 95
How Can We Develop (and Promote) Them Faster?	p. 97
Managing Communications Regarding High Potentials	p. 98
Succession Management	p. 99
Evaluating Readiness for Promotion in the Context of Succession Management	p. 101
Methods for Evaluating Readiness	p. 102
Keeping Those "Not Yet Ready" on the Path(s) to Get There	p. 102
The Bottom Line	p. 105
Expanding Success Beyond the Individual Organization - Industry and Economic Development Perspectives	p. 107
Career Paths and the Industry Perspective	p. 109
Examples	p. 110
Differences between Industry Career Paths and Organizational Career Paths	p. 116
Career Paths and the Economic Development Perspective	p. 118
Examples	p. 120
Differences between Career Paths Designed for Economic Development Purposes and Organizational Career Paths	p. 124
Labor Market Analyses and Analyses of Cross-Occupation Requirements	p. 125
Labor Market Analyses	p. 125
Analyses of Requirements across Occupations	p. 126
The Bottom Line	p. 127
Looking to the Future	p. 129
Trend One - Demographic Trends	p. 130
Implications for Organizations	p. 131
Trend Two - Technology	p. 132
Implications for Organizations	p. 134
Trend Three - Globalization and Changing Organizational Structures	p. 134
Implications for Organizations	p. 135
Trend Four - Defining Career Success	p. 136
Implications for Organizations	p. 136
The Bottom Line	p. 137
Career Path Resource List	p. 139
Notes	p. 143
References	p. 147
Name Index	p. 151
Subject Index	p. 153
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