CAREER PLANNING AND WAGE MANAGEMENT IN HUMAN RESOURCES

Cemal GUNDOGDU ¹ , özgür karataş ¹ , Atalay GACAR ¹

With globalization and rapidly developping technology, enterprises, today, have to operate efficiently at its upmost level to comply with the competitive world and be strong enough in the competitive environment. After realising that human is the leading factor affecting the achievment, enterprises have started to put more emphasis on human resources management; in order to be successful and reach their goals effectively as soon as possible, they have to increase the work satisfaction of their employees, and to maintain their sustainability, they also have to give more emphasis to career planning. Under today’s circumstances, it is only possible by having an effective human resource management to utilize the rapidly increasing information flow effectively and efficiently, to meet the requirements of the employees thereby increasing the efficiency and success of the enterprise. Having most relations with both other human resource functions and internal and external environment of the business and also regarded as the most critical function of the human resources, wage management is defined as a synthesis of the activities that concur the expectations of various interest groups at a common point. Because, when considering the topic from the point of enterprises and, one of their vital functions, human resources management, wage is not only a cost element but an important medium to motivate the employees, as well.

Keywords
Human Resources, Career Planning, Compensation, Compensation Management, Career Management,