The Affiliation of Career Counselling, Self-Actualization and Innovative Work Behavior

Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Leadership and Human Resource Management - Miscellaneous, grade: B+, , course: Research Methods, language: English, abstract: organizations want to protect themselves as well as to lead that particular industry, for that the survival of organizations is to deliver something new with more features on continuous bases, organizations have to be more innovative, that is to apply the best solution which fulfill customer new requirements, implicit needs, existing industry needs or current market requirements. That is consummate through nominal and valuable products, services, ideas, and technologies. But for that organizations have to engage their employees in innovation because without engaging employees departments, scientists, researchers can do nothing as the studies illustrates that innovation is not just the duty of scientists, specialists, either the organizations have to encourage and expand the innovational aptitude of their employees, if they want to be at the high position (Dorenbosch L, Marloes L, Engen V, Verhagen M). For that just innovation is not enough, either organization have to develop innovative work environment so that each and every employee can contribute towards innovation as illustrated in research that each single employee's dealings and proceedings are of critical magnitude and significance for permanent innovation development as well as enhancement (Jong D et al, 2010). The factors that affect employee innovative work behavior and cause of innovation have been explored using different researches and frameworks. According to Super, guidance to career and choosing career and then its development is process of mounting and executing person's self-concept which leads to mental growth that causes in innovation. (Leung A S, 2008). There are five stages of a person's life, the first two stages of that theory are of Growth and Exploration where a person needs career counseling and the fourth stage of that theory is Maintenance where the employee is self-actualized (Retrieved online from Super's theory). Career counseling provides employees with the break to identify career goals and to craft plans within the background of organizational realities.
Studies explored that there is a positive relation between career development and innovation. But how can we achieve career development, we can achieve it by making employees aware of career counseling and self-actualization.