Human Resource Management Practices, Career Planning, Individual Personality Traits Towards Career Success Among Government Officer: A Study at Public Service Department

The aim of this research is to examines to what extent career success factors can influence human resource management, career planning and individual personality characteristics to government officer in the Public Service Department of Malaysia. This study was conducted at the Public Services Department, Putrajaya, involving a total of 250 respondents consisting of government officer which is from professional and management group. The objective of this study were to (i) the differences significance between gender, age and length of service in the PSD and the analysis using the t test and ANOVA test. While the objective (ii) Analysis Pearson correlation was used to determine the significant relationship between human resource management practices, career planning and personality characteristics of individuals with the career success. While the objective (iii), to see the dominant factor contributing to career success. Results from the analysis and findings shows that the three variables (human resource management practices, career planning and individual personality traits have a significant relationship to successful career and human resource management practices is the dominant factor that immensely contributed to the success career for government officials in the PSD. It is recommended that human resources in the PSD always make sure to using HRM practices as a method that can encourage and also improve performance as well as providing platform for officers to achieve career success in their life.