subject: Successful Career Planning And Its Successful Development. [print this page] Career motivations are very important for some people. Thats why correct personified planning and development of career of the key employees can make personnel community stable and profitable. So, career should be carefully planned and developed, but how to combine personal aims, goals and plans of an individual and a whole organization?
Career planning is divided into four directions:
Qualifying or horizontal career implies that a person improves qualification, acquires new knowledge and skills of work, but thus continues to hold a former position, or moves on similar level to other division or passes in an adjacent functional sphere of activity. Quite often an employee is offered a certain office role within the limits of horizontal career performance at a step which has no rigid formal fastening in organizational structure (for example, a role of the head of time target group, the program, etc). Also expansion or complication of problems within the limits of a position can be regarded to horizontal career (as a rule, with adequate change of compensation).
Status or vertical career implies employment by the worker of a position of higher level that leads to increase of his/her status in hierarchical structure of the organization. Concept of "career" is often identified with this type of career development, as in this case advancement most visible. Special cases of vertical career are linear career (the worker consistently takes place each step of hierarchy in structure of organization) and nonlinear (in this case at advancement upwards he/she passes some hierarchical positions).
Besides, there are other types of career determined by key changes in career:
Imperious career implies expansion of sphere of influence and can be connected with increase in informal powers (for example, it is possible to carry appointment of the main analyst to a position of the adviser of the chairman of board to such type of career development on financial questions, etc.).
Monetary career reflects payment or increase of income, it is not obligatory connected with position change.
