The Strategic Career Development on Academic Competencies

Abstract

A competency is the ability to do something successfully or efficiently by having certain knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors that can be led to performance. These become one of the essential factors that useful for organization success as well as staff success. Thus, a good strategic career development is needed for each of the organization to make sure their staff are capable enough with a bundle of competencies to bringing up the organization long term success especially for academic staff at higher education institution. Due to this reason, the study aims to explain the relationship between the strategic career developments by higher institution towards the competencies among academician staff. A total of 112 respondents was answering the questionnaire that consist of three sections which are demographic profile, staff competencies and career development. The results analyze by SPSS shown that there is significant relationship between career development and competencies among academic staff in higher education institution with b=0.323 were by the r-value 0.311, p< 0.05.Therefore, the results of this study help to understand the planning of long term career development and its impact on competencies among academicians for organizations future success.