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This 6 page paper considers career plans from the employment relationship perspective. The paper looks at what is meant by a career plan, how they are made and who they are used along with the advantages and disadvantages of a plan to the employers and the employees. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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the progression they want to take to reach their ultimate goal. The career plan would last many years, the time scale could be flexible and the path may also be
potentially variable, but the outline would have a target and a strategy made up of steps for how to reach that target. In the past the carer path would be
down to the employee and where an employer had a carer path is would be more likely to represent an expected bureaucratic career progression. The approach of the employers
was based in the hard school that was task orientated, employees were seen as cogs in a machine as functional part. It was only with the foundation of the human
relations school of through that started with Mayo and the Hawthorne studies. These indicated that there was a more complex relationship between employer and employee. Where employees felt that
the employer cared about them and was looking after them the level of commitment increased and motivation would also be higher. Today there are many tools such as performance
appraisals and metrics used to assess performance and progress, these along with tools that grant employees empowerment and allow for their needs, as seen with models such as Maslow
and Herzbreg, recognise the interactive nature of the relationship (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). If we apply the idea of using approaches such as Maslow there are a range of
needs, these could be motivators but were placed in a set order. For example, lower order needs were items such as shelter and psychological need, higher order needs include the
need for acceptance and recognition (Huczyniski and Buchanan, 2003). These are a hierarchy and the lower needs need to be satisfied before higher needs will be motivators (Huczyniski and
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