Performance Management Systems and Strategies

DEFINITIONS AND CONCEPTS

Career is a sequence of attitudes and behaviour associated with the series of work-related activities over a person's lifetime. We can also define career as a succession of related jobs, arranged in hierarchical orders, through which a person moves in an organization. Although we perceive career from an individual employee's perspective, it can also be organization centred. Thus, career is often defined separately as external career and internal career. External career refers to the objective categories used by society and organizations to describe the progression of steps through a given occupation, while internal career refers to the set of steps or stages which make up the individual's own concept of career progression ...