Designing a Model of the Career Path Process of Knowledge Workers: (Case Study: Municipality of Tehran)

Mladkova et al (2015) considered the use of motivators as a prerequisite for the effective use of knowledge workers and introduced the creation of a suitable Career Path as an Effective Motivator for knowledge workers and The present study was conducted with the aim of "Designing a Model of the Career Path of Knowledge Workers".

The study was done by descriptive-exploratory method. At First, the themes and categories that form the model were identified using content analysis and by modeling the structural-interpretive norm, the process model of the career path was presented. The statistical population included academic experts and experts in the field of Human Resource Management and The statistical sample of experts up to the stage of theoretical saturation were selected by 15 people by purposeful judgment. Data collection tools included semi-structured interview and grounded expert questionnaire. In order to explain the validity of the interview questions and grounded expert questionnaire, face validity method was used and its Reliability was confirmed by Re-test method.

After the interview, out of 163 identified expressive phrases, 44 basic themes were extracted and coded, these themes were based on content and appearance as Organizing Themes/ Sub-Themes, and in the last stage, 4 Main or All-Inclusive themes were finalized.

The combination of the results of content analysis and structural-interpretive modeling led to the presentation of" A Model of the Career Path Process of Knowledge Employees which consists of four stages: Career Path Planning, Career Path Management, Career Path Development and Career Path Consequences.