Abstract:

In businesses, it is a requirement of strategic management that employees adopt organizational goals as their own goals. When examined from the perspective of human resources management, making career plans of the employees who best embrace the business goals and performing best, raising their career ladders horizontally or vertically will contribute to better adoption of strategic goals. The aim of the research is to reveal whether career management has any effect on employee performance. Survey technique was applied in the research. A survey was conducted with 480 employees in businesses operating in the Mediterranean region and employing more than 50 personnel, and normality, homogeneity, exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analyzes were applied in the SPSS statistical program. As a result of the analysis, it was seen that career management consists of a two-factor structure, and the validity of the structure was proven with confirmatory factor analysis. It was concluded that there is a medium level relationship between the variables of career planning and career management, which are the sub-dimensions of the scale, that career planning does not have a positive effect on employee performance, and that the career management dimension affects employee performance positively and significantly. Accordingly, it is recommended that business managers support the individual career management of employees working in the business.

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