Revisiting Career Risks in Human Resources Management

Abstract

A business career, being a promising method of increasing the competitiveness of the organization's labor market, inevitably becomes a source of career risks. In theory and practice, there is a high theo­retical, methodological and research technique uncertainty of the concept of «career risk». In this context, the study of the definition of the concept of "career risks" is relevant. The purpose of our study is to develop the scientific foundations of a risk-based approach to a business career, which makes it possible to determine the conditions, causes, factors and types of career risks that can lead to destructive positioning of human resources in the labor market. The research methodology is based on a theoretical analysis of the main scientific provisions of risk management and career management. The statistical data of the statistical reports and primary personnel documents of commercial banks, the information of the all-Russian statistical reports served as the information and empirical base of the study. The target of research are fifteen banks with different development strategies in the period 2013–2018, operating in Novosibirsk. The scientific novelty lies in the making of the author's conceptual approach to career risks: an interpretation of the concept of «career risk», an interpretation of its socio-economic content, and the imperatives of the emergence of career risks for bank employees are determined. The study showed the need to diagnose risk areas of a business career, which creates information support for developing measures to minimize its negative consequences and maximize emerging opportunities.