Impact of Career Development on Employees’ Performance: Mediating Role of Turnover Intentions in Higher Education

Abstract

The career development is crucial for employees in all organizations including higher educational institutions that helps in providing opportunities for professional development in order to improve their professional values, performance and standings. The higher career development opportunities and strong performances are expected to reduce employees’ apprehensions and declined the turnover intentions for ensuring the desired reputations and success in contemporary competitive situations. In order to examine the relationship between career development and employees’ performance in the higher educational context, with mediating role of turnover intentions, data was collected from the teachers hailing from southern region, KP, Pakistan. The secondary data on the research issues was collected from existing literature while primary data was collected from structured questionnaire in order to analyze the data through diverse procedures to extracted the required information thereby reaching the conclusion. The results of study offer significant information in reaching the desired conclusion and making decisions about hypotheses thereby recommending some suggestions for the policy-makers and future researchers for reconsidering the research issues in a tailor-made format for desired successes.