Abstract
Organizational career development has been characterized as a challenging and unpredictable task keeping into consideration the individual career expectations and organizational development. Effective career development process is achieved with proper indulgence of employee's career planning and organizational career management. It is in this context that the present study has been conducted to examine empirically the antecedents of career development in the Indian firms. A self administered questionnaire in a five point Likert scale has been used for the study. It involved three parts, namely, career planning, career management and career development collected from 57 respondents. Random sampling was used for collecting the data from three Indian service sectors, namely, Wipro, State Bank of India and Axis Bank. Descriptive Statistics, Spearman's Rank Correlation and Linear Regression were used to analyze the data. SPSS 20 package was used for the data analysis. The analysis reveals the antecedent, namely, career planning and career management, have a positive and significant influence on career development. The incorporation of individual career planning and organizational career management was found to be the major antecedent of career development programs. Career planning explained 87 per cent variation in career development and career management explained 89 per cent variation in career development.
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