Career Management Practices in Sri Lanka: An Empirical Investigation
Abstract
Career management is considered as one of the fastest developing areas of Human Resource
Development. This paper explores the career management practices in Sri Lankan organizations
and bringing the discussion in international perspectives. The authors surveyed 216 Sri Lankan
organizations, which were listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange. The data was gathered from
either the human resource manager or the manager who is responsible to handle human
resource development activities. Factor analysis, independent sample t- test and one-way anova
methods were used to test the hypotheses of the study and findings of the study revealed, among
the 19 organizational career management practices, 17 applied beyond the moderate level and
they were clustered into four groups. Resulting clusters were not significantly associated with
certain demographic factors. The implications and limitations of the study are also discussed.
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