The Concept of Career Management

This document provides an overview of Career Management, highlighting the key issues from a practical viewpoint.

Here we review two psychological models of career management: Abraham Maslow’s work on motivation and Carl Jung’s work on personality types.

Charles Handy is recognised as one of the world’s best known management thinkers. His views on career management have helped to define modern careers and have inspired a re-assessment of the employment relationship. This article presents an overview of his most important concepts from the field of career management.

Here we review Edgar Schein’s ‘Career Anchors’, a motivational modelling technique based on the premise that individuals have basic values and desires which motivate them when choosing a job.

Friedman is a McKinsey consultant and career management expert. We outline his arguments on the service sector labour shortage, considering career management from the organisational point of view.

A discussion of the vital importance of the implicit relationship between employer and employee.

A career management model which can be used to help individuals understand and manage their own careers, and to help organisations to develop their employees’ careers.

A consideration of Reardon’s work, looking at the different priorities and issues that men and women face in the workplace.

The MBTI is a model of personality types which identifies personality preferences. This article provides an overview of the model, which is based on Carl Jung’s notions of psychological types.

An outline of the most widely adopted career management approaches.

Career management can have a great impact on employee retention, and the role of managers is vital to this. These top tips have been designed to help managers engage and retain their best talent.

With the threat of a future skills shortage and a tough economy, career management must be moved up the agenda. This article outlines how to implement a career management strategy.