Influence of Organizational Climate on Career Progression of Engineers: Evidence from a Leading Telecommunication Company in Sri Lanka

Career progression is a phenomenal factor in the industry, where it starts someone’s career from the beginning and flow till, he/she retires. There are numerous factors affecting the career progression of an employee. Early studies show that there are so many areas are in concern related to Sri Lankan culture, telecommunication sector, career progression etc. This study specifically investigates on the impact of organisational climate to the career progression. In this study, a structured questionnaire was shared among 138 participants and then was analysed via SPSS version 20. Descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, and multiple regression analysis were used to analyse the collected data. Organisation climate was further split in to four dimensions, which are psychological, structural, social, and bureaucratic. The analysis revealed that the organisational climate was having a positive strong significant relationship over career progression. The findings suggested that the management should focus on few strategic human resource management practices to improve the career progression.