2024 i-STET

Self-development is the process of learning new things and building new skills that can help an employee to increase their chances of success, and to grow not only as a better employee, but also a better individual. The biggest asset that an organisation has is its employees. Therefore, it is important for the organisations to invest in their employees’ growth and development to ensure long-term success. Hence, employees’ self-development is crucial as it helps the employees to reach their full potential and capabilities to become the best possible version of themselves. In supporting the goals of 11th National Development Plan and Brunei Vision 2035 to make the human capital development as key priorities, the researcher aim to analyse the challenges that may hinder employees’ self-development in an organisation. To collect data and to achieve the objective of this paper, the researcher will apply quantitative methods throughout the study, which involves distributing questionnaire to selected participants, such as several employees from different departments in an organisation. This study is significant by virtue as its findings will gives awareness and understanding on the challenges of self-development that are faced by the employees in their orgaisations, and it would be a valuable resource for the researchers, industry players, and employees themselves to conduct further study on this topic.