Career management and advancement from the individual context of the Albanian manager, under the perspectives of professionalism and personality related to business performance

The paper aims at rendering a tableau of the career management in the Albanian reality in the large and medium enterprises seen from the individual context of the manager. To this objective, a survey was undertaken using the face-to-face approach, focused on communication, measuring two independent variables: the actual professionalism of the manager and the manager personality, considering the Big 5 personality traits, in respect to the dependent variable: business performance. The objective is obtaining results upon the path to a successful career advancement form the individual perspective. By permeating onto the concrete work environment, tracking the developments in various hierarchical management levels and the relevant factors influencing respectively, we intended to depict salient challenges to the career management seen from the manager perspective in the Albanian business environment, wherein the subject of career management is not much discussed and recognized.