Research Progress on Career Plateau in Western Countries

Career plateau describes an individual' s current status inside a given organization, in which employees find themselves difficult to develop further. The research on career plateau can explain the change of employees' promise to organization, career psychology, work involvement and so on, helpful to raise the human resource management This paper reviews the research results in western countries, commenting on the strength and the failure, proposing that the future research should be focused on the process of the formation with the quantitative analysis.