Whilst career development is found to be the most essential factor under OCM *that influences individual performance; maintaining career flexibility and building network of contact are factors under career strategies that found significant in explaining individual performance. The contents of the thesis is for internal user only Created Date need to equip individuals with career management skills in order to facilitate orientation in complex education landscapes andlabour markets of the 21st century. This concept shifts the focus towards learning outcomes of career interventions, i.e. the ability of an individual to identify own interests and strengths, to relate these Career Management covers the transition into your new role as well as periodic evaluations of your career and the flow back into the next iteration of the job cycle. This Personal Career Strategy document contains exercises for the first four stages of the process to get you started. Data generated will later be used to develop your key Moreover, the changing environment demands ongoing career management. Career management describes an individual's active and purposeful management of a career. In BM Staw and J. Ross (1987) words, "Career Management is a process by which individuals develop, implement, and monitor career goals and strategy." Career Management 221 career development with other HR initiatives (Kaye & Leibowitz,1994), organi­ zational career development in Canada, overall, is still father informal and hap­ hazard. Often, services and programs are not aligned with specified goals and very little specific assistance is offered to plateaued workers (Bernes & Magnusson Career management is conscious planning of one's activities and engagements in the jobs one undertakes in the course of his life for better fulfilment, growth and financial stability. It is a sequential process that starts from an understanding of oneself and encompasses occupational awareness. An individual's career is the sole source of the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organisation (unesc, 2002) explains that the career counselling of youth consists of four elements: (a) helping individuals to gain greater self-awareness in areas such as interests, values, abilities, and personality style, (b) connecting individuals to resources so that they can … analysis of the purpose of career management, the role players involved with career management and the elements of career management (paragraphs 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 of this Chapter). According to Baron and Greenberg (1990, p.320) a typical career management programme, as part of the larger human resources system, involves efforts to - Individual career planning: The process by which employees obtain knowledge about themselves (their values, personality, preferences, interests, abilities, etc.) and 8 information about the working environment, and then attempt to achieve a proper match. is to determine whether there is a relationship between organizational career management and individual performance. Organizational career management comprised measure of career management policies, career development, and career information while individual performance is measured in terms of the output performance. Through career planning, an individual can be aware of his strengths, weaknesses and knowledge or skills, which are required to achieve the future goals. This complex activity consists of 5 stages: self-assessm