Personnel Career Advancement Factors: Evidence from Educational Institutions

Abstract

The article offers an up-to-date interpretation of the concept ‘personnel career advancement factors’. It also defines different approaches to the distribution of factors that greatly affect the career growth of personnel in educational institutions. The analysis of the factors of personnel career advancement in the educational institution is proposed to be carried out according to the developed step-by-step scheme of analysis of factors that have the greatest impact on the career advancement of employees in educational institutions. It is suggested to use cluster and discriminant analysis to establish the regularities of the relationship between these factors and to determine the relevant factors. To construct discriminant functions, the method of step-by-step inclusion is used, which involves the step-by-step addition of various combinations of factors to the calculations. As a result, a model has been developed that reflects the relationship between the factors that have the greatest impact on the career growth of employees in the educational institution. With the help of cluster analysis, the factors that influence the career growth of personnel in the educational institution are determined and, accordingly, clusters are built.