Conceptualizing the Participation of Managers in Career-Focused Learning and Development: A Framework

Ronan Carbery, Thomas N. Garavan
2007 Human Resource Development Review  
This purpose of this study is to understand and explain the relationships between managers' participation in career-focused learning and development (CFLD) and a multiplicity of individual, dispositional, organisational, and environmental factors. The contemporary career highlights the role of managers as active agents of their own careers. Managers are expected to be more career self-directed and to take ownership for investment in their career competencies. Managers are increasingly expected
more » ... o have developed a complex set of personal and employability skills. CFLD is defined as formal voluntary programs of learning and development which contribute to the enhancement of generic competencies that have portability to different contexts. These competencies have value in facilitating the career progression of individuals. The study develops a model which suggests a three-level (micro-, meso-and macro-levels) framework to allow for a layered understanding of influences on participation in CFLD. Declaration This thesis is entirely my own work and has not been submitted to any other University or Higher Education Institution or for any other academic award. Where the work of others has been reported, it has been fully acknowledged and referenced. Ronan Carbery * Propositions restated due to respecification of model in Modified Model 2. ** Proposition restated and recategorised due to respecification of model in Modified Model 2.
doi:10.1177/1534484307307552 fatcat:lejwodu2jbgh7k3t2nqahj5k6u