Work Environment And Career Development

Environment is one of the factors that potentially to give impact to a person especially for those who are working. As cited by Ollukkaran and Gunaseelan (2012), working environment is described as a condition or state where a collection of human being called as workforce that working together in achieving the objective. On the other hand, workplace environment refers to the employee attitude towards the comfort working environment (Imran, Fatima, Zaheer, Yousaf, & Batool, 2012). Working environment also can be defined as the location of task to be done. According to Naharuddin and Sadegi (2013), they believe that physical work environment is most important factor in the working environment which also known as an ergonomic workplace. However,

The effectiveness of career development can be seen if the career development activities were carried out jointly between the employee, employers and the organizations itself. When employees have a positive perception of their career development and been support by the organization, the employee tend to have high motivation in order for them to achieve the goals. Hence, employees who are contented with the work and his career will be faithful to the organization and work to develop profitability and productivity of the organization. According to Roy (2015) Career development is a process of moving forward employee career plan where it is involving effort from individual employees and organization to achieving balance between employee career aspiration and organization workforce requirement. According to Hall (2002) Career development is important to employee and employer because career development provide mutual value outcome to employee and employer. According to Prince (2005) career development provide competitive advantage. To maintain and gain competitive advantage organization required talented employees and high competencies employees and this intention is required organization to plan career development to the employees (Prince,

According to Anis, Nasir and Safwan, (2011) suitable working environment able to enhance employee capability and commitment toward job and organization as working environment highlight by researcher as vital concept of employee retention. The organization create environment of work not only for the purpose to attract the human capital but also as competitive advantage of the company itself to retain experience, creative and knowledgeable employee (Action & Golden, 2003). Employee who has experience positive impact of working environment would likely to stay for a long time which leads to employee retention (Moncarz, Zhao & Kay,