Perceived Causes of Career Plateau in the Public Service

The purpose of this paper was to develop a better understanding the causes career plateau in public service, focusing on 67 people who we determined be plateaued. Our interviews identified examples incidents describing successes and interruptions careers developing an overall picture reasons for being We ten themes, which were grouped into three areas: deficiencies experience, skills education (four themes); competition perceptions favoritism discrimination (two themes). In addition feeling plateaued because inability demonstrate education, knowledge, many offered lack interviewing or evidence discrimination. Those are verbalize feelings disgust frustration illustrate tendency become less engaged with their work. think that negative impacts systemic have important implications they likely impact employees engagement work life. However, as our results based sample government Canadian require verification other settings.