Career Paths Charting Courses to Success for Organizations and Their Employees [Hardcover]

• 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

Preface xiii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

What are Career Paths? 2

The Goal of This Book 19

Overview 21

Chapter 2 A Conceptual Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths 23

Career Path Attributes 26

Career Path Patterns 27

Outcomes 29

The Bottom Line 31

Chapter 3 A Practical Toolkit for Constructing Career Paths 33

Sources and Methods 34

Past 34

Present 37

Future 37

A Note about the Special Role of Interviews and Focus Groups 38

How to Construct Career Paths 39

Initial Steps 39

Sequential List of Positions or Roles 47

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