Career Paths: Charting Courses to Success for Organizations and Their Employees

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


From the Back Cover Career paths are the centerpiece of effective talent management systems. In today’s global and highly competitive environment, it is increasingly important for organizations and managers to focus on successfully moving employees in the workplace. Career Paths offers a career path model and useful tools and tips for developing and implementing career paths and integrating those paths into talent management systems. The authors describe the value of career paths from individual employee, organizational, and industry standpoints and show how career path efforts can be integrated with recruitment and hiring, strategic planning, succession management, employee development, and retention programs. With a sample career path guide and a list of resources organizations can use in developing career paths, this book will be an indispensable reference for HR professionals, managers and executives, training and development professionals, and organizational consultants.