A report recently released by the Development Research Center of the State Council, the Chinese version for cabinet, shows that lack of employee-oriented career growth plans has become a widespread presence in Chinese enterprises, which experts believe will greatly hurt the enterprises' competitiveness.

"The lack will seriously reduce both enterprises' attraction and cohesion," said Dr. Lin Zeyan from the center's enterprise branch.

According to the Chinese Human Resources Development Report, only 15 percent of all the surveyed enterprises have written employee career growth plans, and only 7.2 percent of them have carried out the plans as required.

Some 1,550, or 85 percent of all the surveyed enterprises don't have any plan or just in process to map such plans, said the report.

"The lack is a general fact, regardless of enterprises' ownership, the industries they belong to or their scales," said Lin, who attributed many employees' passive attitude toward work to the fact that they can't see what they will achieve or become in the future under the current conditions.

Source: Xinhua