A Study on the Determinants of Employee Career Effectiveness

Study of careers has become an important aspect in the fast changing organizational context. It has been increasingly recognized recently that career management is the responsibility of both the individual as well as the organization. This empirical study tries to understand the important elements of individual and organizational career practices that affect an employee's career effectiveness. Based on the investigation, we used factor analysis, the reliability tests and stepwise forward regression to find that all the dimensions of career effectiveness namely performance, attitude, identity and adaptability are significantly explained. The results of this research study indicate that individual determinants such as career planning and knowledge of organizational politics and organizational level determinants such as training and development support, quality of performance feedback and supervisory support explain significant variances in the determination of employee career effectiveness.