Responsibilities of

employees,
managers and
organization in
career planning
and development

BY: M O NI K A D O B RI YA L
What is career?
A career is a set of positions that a person has held in
his professional life, which enriches the experience of
the individual and ensures his growth in the profession.
The sequence of activities, including education,
training, gaining professional experience determines
the career path. It is related to the opportunities for
holding a higher position in the future.
What is career
planning?
Career planning is a process in which personal skills, qualities,
knowledge, motivation, and other characteristics are actualized.
Information about job opportunities and choices is collected.
Specific goals are set through a plan for achieving success in the
career. Proper career planning is based on the definition of
professional goals - the future positions to which a person aspires
on the path of his career. For some people, moving these positions
involves developing preliminary plans and strategies, others rely
on their luck, but although it helps in some cases, the right
education, experience, abilities, and their proper development are
necessary conditions to create and career development. Career
planning is important for the realization of goals set in the field of
professional development.
Objectives of
career planning
1. To identify positive
characteristics of the employees.
2. To develop awareness about each
employee’s uniqueness.
3. To respect feelings of other
employees.
4. To attract talented employees to
the organization.
5. To train employees towards
team-building skills.
6. To create healthy ways of dealing
with conflicts, emotions, and stress.
Responsibilities of managers

Acting as a catalyst, Assessment of the Gives guidance and Verification of the Providing information Provides models for
giving guidance to reality of individual advice to the information provided on vacancies for career planning,
the employee in goals and needs individual on the by the individual which the manager is counseling, and
career planning implementation of responsible necessary
the mutually agreed information for
development plan individual career
planning

Providing Training of
appropriate training employees and their
on career planning inclusion in various
issues development
programs
Responsibilities of
employees
Employee career planning can be defined as all actions of self-assessment, exploration
of opportunities, establishing goals etc., designed to help the employee to make
informed choices and changes about career. Employee’s career planning consists of
five steps namely:

(i) self-assessment is the collection of information about himself (values, interests,

skills), continuous assessment and reporting to others,

(ii) exploring opportunities involves gathering information about existing opportunities

within but also outside the organization (training and other development methods),

(iii) making decisions and setting goals on short and long term for training
requirements, change of job/department etc.,

(iv) planning consisting of determining the ways and means of achieving goals, taking
the actions to achieve them, considering its consequences, setting deadlines and
resource requirements, and

(v) pursuit of achievement of goals, action by the individual accounts for his successes
and failures and make decisions to retain or change career course.
Responsibilities of
an organisation
An organizations is to ensure that the employees with
appropriate skills are in the right positions. This is essential for
the organization to be viable on short-term, or to maintain
competitive advantage in the long term. The type and skills of the
employees required are different and depend on the range of
operation of the organization engulfing the economic sector,
specific technology, and customers’ characteristics etc.
Individualities of the organization affect the jobs structure, the
types of recruited employees for each job, and the development
of the employees on the job. In many organizations, there are
available many promotion opportunities to certain types of
positions (especially those involving unique skills to give value to
the organization) and while there are limited opportunities for
other positions.
Thank you.