Title Analysis of factors motivating the managers’ career
Translation of Title Vadovų karjerą skatinančių veiksnių analizė.
Authors Župerkienė, Erika ; Žilinskas, Vytautas Jonas
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Is Part of Inžinerinė ekonomika = Engineering economics.. Kaunas : Kauno technologijos universitetas. 2008, Nr. 2 (57), p. 85-91.. ISSN 1392-2785. eISSN 2029-5839
Keywords [eng] personnel management ; career ; managers ; requirements for managers
Abstract [eng] The present article analyzes what factors determine managers’ strive for career, making an assumption that a possibility for career has to be provided for the most initiative and qualified employees, a possibility which at the same time would be a motivating factor itself. Only motivated employees who have possibilities to realize their goals and expectations in organization can successfully strive for results in organization performance. Analysis of managers’ career expectations is relevant when considering today’s condition in Lithuania, for many qualified employees, possessing both knowledge and working experience but seeing no perspective in their current job or position, leave their workplaces and search for jobs abroad. Such analyses are useful in order to hold qualified professionals in the Lithuanian market, irrespective of the fact if they work in managing position or not, for if an organization lacks professional managers capable to recruit a united team, it will lack good employees and activities of such an organization will be doomed to failure. This article analyzes environmental factors determine managers’ motivation to seek for a career in Lithuanian organizations. Continuous changes taking place necessitate a new approach to the role of managers in an organization, and an assessment of their professional and career related expectations. In order to achieve successes in organization activity, involvement of employees and managers in their career planning must be evaluated anew, by integrating their personal and organizational interests. Growing requirements for managers suggest paying greater attention to implementation of their career possibilities in organization. For only motivated employees, having possibilities to implement their goals and expectation within the organization can develop activity of that organization effectively. [...].
Published Kaunas : Kauno technologijos universitetas
Type Journal article
Language English
Publication date 2008
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