Study On Employee Career Management In Joint-stock Commercial Bank

Accompanying the economic globalization and China's admission to the WTO is the ever increasing competition in the banking industry. Facing such challenge, joint-stock commercial banks are finding means to improve their competitiveness, which is ultimately dependent upon human capital and steady inputs of new talents. Consequently, applying employee career management in HR is now taking on a more than ever significant meaning.With respect to HR management concepts and methods, Chinese Joint-stock commercial banks'HR management principally follows traditional HR management technique, of which the core remains on daily personnel administration based upon employer-employee-relations. Although, in Chinese banks, labor contract system, two-way selection system, competing for position, and preferred hiring system have been implemented, employee career management system is lacking and not systematically applied. Some current predicaments, among others, are: promotional ladder is excessively simple; internal career development channel is ambiguous and uncertain; head hunting method is relatively simple and mostly relying on hunting from financial institutions; training contents and methods are exceedingly simple and only targeted at upgrading business skills. Employee career management in Chinese banks is in general at its rudimentary stage and far from perfect.This paper uses the state of joint-stock commercial banks as the background, applies Career Planning and Management Theory, analyzes in detail A bank's HR structure, examines status and issues related to its HR management. The analysis initiates with four career stages, specifically recruitment stage, early-career stages, mid-career stage and late-career stage, then constructs a preliminary career management structure for Joint-stock commercial bank. In addition, from a practical standpoint, this paper provides a series of specific recommendations and measures, which include career development ladder design, career development training system, management trainee program, and successor program.This paper is written in the hope that and to awake joint-stock commercial banks to apply employee career management throughout their HR practices, and to effectively connect enterprises'development with employees'growth, so as to enhance the level of HR management in Chinese joint-stock commercial banks.