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.
