CBE Research Seminar Series: How has certificate program(s) contributed to your career advancement in the workplace?

Professor Mané Beglaryan will present her “How has certificate program(s) contributed to your career advancement in the workplace?” research paper in the framework of Research Seminar Series, held by CBE.
Career advancement is one of the most important elements for employee satisfaction and hence, retention at a company. According to Victor Lipman of Forbes, clear opportunities for career advancement are an “especially powerful” employee motivator. In this paper we are focusing on certification programs and how they are linked to offering more tailored career path(s). We define certification as a formal process of making certain that an individual is qualified in terms of particular knowledge or skills. More so, we view it within the scope of the individual’s quest for pursuing the universally recognized certification (either self-motivated or employer-guided) and how that has contributed to career advancement opportunities and growth within the organization. Since various fields demand certification as a proof of the individual’s expertise something he/she can demonstrate as a competitive edge over the others we are keen on investigating the return on investment (ROI) for these certification programs that have immediate utilization in the workplace as a qualification for career advancement.

Mané Beglaryan is a Lecturer at the College of Business and Economics coming with a management consulting background in private sector development and having worked for leading consulting companies in Washington, DC. USA. Her main areas of interest are public and private sector management, institutional capacity building, strategic planning and execution, training and development, and program evaluation. Prior to joining AUA College of Business and Economics as a Professor of Management, Mané worked on USAID-funded projects in the area of institutional capacity building and technical assistance for select government ministries and agencies. Mané’s consulting clients include Euromonitor International, UNIDO, UNDP, UN WOMEN Georgia, Counterpart International, Armenian Water and Sewerage Company, Central Bank of Armenia, etc. Mané is a graduate of Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University and Yerevan State University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Management.