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Purpose

– Demonstrates how to build commitment and retain employees through a career-development strategy.

Design/methodology/approach

– Shows how organizations often mismanage career development and how they could do better.

Findings

– Describes the five “Ps” of poor career development, the foundations of a career-development strategy and a number of career-development activities.

Practical implications

– Highlights the importance of beginning early, communicating clearly, partnering employees, facilitating internal movements and taking action frequently.

Social implications

– Advances the view that employee disengagement and high employee turnover are expensive and often avoidable.

Originality/value

– Argues that the lack of career development continues to be a major cause of employee dissatisfaction and turnover and shows how this can be avoided.

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