Career systems increase the advancement and professional development opportunities for all employees in a given organization. A major byproduct of such systems is improved quality and quantity of agency services. This workshop strives to familiarize you with the five major components of a career system and to enable you to adapt those components within different organizational contexts. Accordingly, it has six overall goals:

1. To introduce you to the career system concept;
2. To define job analyses and discuss their importance;
3. To define a standardized, performance-based evaluation mechanism and describe a model performance-based evaluation system;
4. To define a career ladder, discuss its importance and suggest guidelines for adapting a model career ladder to an existing career structure;
5. To define accredited training and education programs, discuss their importance, and suggest guidelines for identifying training needs within different organizational contexts; and
6. To define organizational supports, discuss their importance, and suggest guidelines for developing organizational supports within different organizational contexts.

This report is part of the collection of scanned historical documents available to the public.