Career Plateau : The biggest menace of the hour

Career Plateau : The biggest menace of the hour
Career Plateau is a phenomenon wherein the possibility of vertical career growth within the organisational hierarchy becomes very low or struck. It often happens that most of the employees reach a career plateau before attaining their individual career goals. The transformation to flatter organisation and agility in organisation culture is one of the measure factors for this.

Every one of us likes both personal and professional growth but what happens when either of them or both of them struck? Who is responsible? Why does it happen? What is the side-effect? What is the easy solution?

During the era of 20th century where we talk about industry 4.0, IoT, Agile structure, Hybrid work force, employee wellbeing, employee engagement and many other corporate jargons but still the career plateau and its severity both personal and professional front is a big menace. Career Plateau is a phenomenon wherein the possibility of vertical career growth within the organisational hierarchy becomes very low or struck. It often happens that most of the employees reach a career plateau before attaining their individual career goals. The transformation to flatter organisation and agility in organisation culture is one of the measure factors for this.

The word career plateau which otherwise known as career stagnation, it means that the existing knowledge and skills are not...

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Satyanarayan Swain

Human Resource Management at XIM University, Bhubaneswar

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Satyanarayan Swain

Human Resource Management at XIM University, Bhubaneswar

Dr. Kalpana Sahoo

Associate Professor (OB), School of Human Resource Management, XIM University, India

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