Within the last decade, the tourism and hospitality industry is one of the fastest growing industries around the globe. As the market competition grows, labor intensive nature of this industry been extensively focused by international hotel chains. Therefore, the organisation would want to be prepared for the retention of key personnel in such changing environment, and concurrently develop potential successors for critical job functions. In achieving this, career development program will be used for candidate selection and retaining valued employees. Many leading international hotel groups have designed and developed career development programs to provide employees with an opportunity to grow within the organisation as well as to enable staff to have a clear picture of their future career. Hence, organisations’ attributes such as size, business structure, culture and management practices will have different implications for employee career development programs.