Leaders’ career development for sustainability: Lithuanian case

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Darbuotojai; Karjera; Karjeros plėtra; Tvarumo supratimas; Tvarumo suvokimas; Vadovai; Vystymas; Awareness of sustainability; Career; Career development; Development; Employees; Leaders.

ENLeaders’ career development for sustainability in organizations of Lithuania will be discussed in the paper. The potential of organization to create favourable working environment suitable for cooperation, communication and networking to combine different actions is based on leader’s awareness about sustainability. Moreover, sustainability stipulates organizations to change leaders’ behaviour for communicating their ideas that make profitable solutions. Therefore, it is significant to raise leaders’ career development and sustainability understanding as it might equip leaders with special skills and knowledge to make adequate decisions for successful collaboration and efficient results in sustainability context. The paper aims to explore that it is necessary to raise awareness about sustainability in organizations that leaders would be able to set clear future visions, create positive relationship between staff, communicate sustainability ideas in organizations and to find out some barriers that leaders are facing. For this reason, it is highly important that leaders envisage how to develop their career for sustainability and make efforts to motivate employees to work at their full potential. Research problem – leaders lack sufficient knowledge about sustainability and influence on their career development in organizations of Lithuania. Research methods –scientific literature analysis, qualitative data collection (interview) and analysis. The results of the study demonstrate that employees do not have enough understanding about sustainability and leaders lack knowledge about opportunities for career development in organizations of Lithuania. [From the publication]