Research On IT Industry Knowledge Workers' Career Management

Career management is the emphases, hotspot and difficulty of HRM in recent years. Currently, research in this field in our country is still at the stage of importing, studying, and digesting. And practice in this field is very poor. This study focus on the knowledge workers's career management of IT industry, and builds up a model of it, then discuss the structure factors, influence relation, and function mechanism of the model, and hopes to arose more research and probe in this field.This study base on the review of past research in career management in and out of the country, then deeply analysing the characters of IT industry and career of knowledge worker, and then bring forward the model of knowledge workers's career management of IT industry. As to prove the rationality of this model, the study also design questionary about knowledge workers's career management of IT industry on the foundation of the model. Through surveying on 366 knowledge workers of 30 IT enterprises, the study has proved the structure factors, influence factors, and operation mechanism of the IT industry knowledge workers's career management system. The result of this research is instructional and exercisable to the practice of knowledge workers's career management of IT enterprises, and make some idea and reference to more research in this field.About the study, the view is new, the research range is material, and the object is representative. Currently, domestic research in the content of this field is unsystematized, and nonstandard. This study bring forward a correspondingly integrated, scientific, and systemic model of IT industry knowledge workers's career management for the first time. The model include 4 parts, such as measure set, influence factors, feedback system, and support system of career management; and 5 modules, such as measure module, influence module, measure bundle module, result and feedback module, and support module. The study also make some hypothesis about this career management system, they are 3 factors structure of career management measure set, influence factors of organization and individual, and the function mechanism of the system.The result of empirical research tell us that, the hypothesis of this study, include the influence factors of knowledge workers's career management of IT industry, such as development cycle of IT enterprises, career cycle of knowledge worker, and typical career anchor of knowledge worker; the structure factors of career managerment measure set, such as career match factor, career development planning factor, and career development assistant factor; the career management's influence to HRM system, enterprise's development, and individual's development have been partly proved. This result also proves the IT industry knowledge workers's career management system which suggested by the study is scientific and rational.