Major Factors Instigating Engineers to Shift their Career from Engineering to Management

Abstract

This chapter investigates major factors contributing to shifting of career by engineers to management, the challenges faced by them after career shift, and the level of job satisfaction. Respondents of this study consisted of professionally certified engineers who have accepted the managerial role in their existing organizations or at any other company. The survey found that natural career path and better job opportunity were the two main factors that contributed to shift of careers from engineering to management. These results can be used to improve the quality of curriculum and education in engineering schools to produce engineers with diverse capabilities. A need has also been established to improve Human Resource planning and development in public sector organizations to stop brain drain and keep their engineers motivated and associated with their professional work.