CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN A LEARNING ORGANIZATION

that the learning organizations’ context is much more supportive of promoting
individuals’ career development.
In table # 16 of the learning organizations we find that all the senior management
(26.8%) of this category strongly believe that staff development interventions
undoubtedly contribute towards the over all organizational development. Among the
responses received for the convention organization as listed in table#18-B we find almost
a similar kind of response as that of the learning organization, the majority agrees that
staff development contributed to overall organizations’ development. This means that the
management in both the cases is aware of the fact that there exist a strong positive
relationship between staff development and organizational development.
The interpretation of table # 18, 19 and 20 show that all the senior management
(26.8%) of the learning organizations strongly favors the inclusion of the staff career
development in formal procedures and policies. In addition to this majority of them
(24.4%) supports the view that it should be added to service contract. Among this
majority (19.5%) are of the view that the process should be fully supported by the
organization.
Comparing this with the table # 20-B, 21-B and 22-B, the responses received
from the conventional organization we find that a majority (97.2%) favors a formal
support to the individuals’ career development and inclusion of such support in contract
is favored by 94.4%. But in contrast to learning organizations the information collected
from learning organization reflects that though 61.1% of the senior management agreed
to full support to the process but a considerable number (39%) had either shown interest
in partial or little support to such process.
We find that the senior management belonging to both the categories strongly
supports the formal integration of career development into the contract document. Further
adding, as conventional organizations are less focused on improvement and development
and more on processes therefore, individuals’ development is not considered as a
foremost priority as shown through partial or little support to the process.