Abstract:
The study aimed at assessing the impact of career development on
employee engagement at Women‘s World Bank, Kumasi. The study used
descriptive survey research and a census of 266 employees. The research approach
used was the quantitative approach and Questionnaire was the main data collection
instrument used to collect data from the field survey. The data for this study was
processed with SPSS (V 22) and analysed with regression and correlational
analysis, means and standard deviation in addition to percentages and frequencies.
The results were presented in tables and figures. The study discovered that,
Women‘s World Bank provides opportunity for career development for its
employees. It was found that the level of satisfaction with career development on
emotional engagement and cognitive engagement had strongest unique but
statistically significant contribution to explaining the dependent variable when all
the other variables in the model are controlled for. The findings disclosed that lack
of experts to handle career counselling as a component of career development and
limited promotion opportunities for employees after career development were
some challenges associated with career development at Women‘s World Bank. The
study recommends that management of Women‘s World Bank must put in place a
strong succession plan system. Human resource managers at the bank must draw
up employee career development programmes to address career development
challenges.
