Family and career path characteristics as predictors of women’s objective and subjective career success: Integrating traditional and protean career explanations

2008 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. 300-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monique Valcour ◽  
Jamie J. Ladge
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Subjective Career Success

scholarly journals Directing our own careers, but getting help from empowering leaders

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minseo Kim ◽  
Terry A. Beehr
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Psychological Empowerment ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Empowering Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Career Literature

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential effects of empowering leadership on followers’ subjective career success through psychological empowerment, protean career orientation, and career commitment. Design/methodology/approach Full-time employees working in the USA were recruited through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Participants answered surveys at three separate points over a six-week period (n=261). Structural equation modeling and bootstrapping were used to verify the indirect effect of empowering leadership on career satisfaction controlling for common method variance and growth need strength. Findings Empowering leadership was positively related to followers’ subsequent psychological empowerment, which in turn predicted protean career attitudes and career commitment, but only career commitment had a significant relationship with career satisfaction. Research limitations/implications Empowering leadership behaviors focus on potentially career-enhancing factors, including providing followers with the confidence, inspiration, and authority to assume control of their work lives. Empowering leaders benefit their followers’ careers, and psychological empowerment and career commitment may be important mechanisms in the empowering leadership-career success relationship when their effects are considered simultaneously. Employees’ development of a protean career orientation has less direct effect on subjective career success than simple commitment to a career. Originality/value Empowering leadership has been overlooked in career literature. The findings advance the understanding of how empowering leader behaviors could help employees’ subjective career success in a serial mediation model. Additionally, the study empirically demonstrates that psychologically empowered employees are more likely to engage in protean career actions and navigate their own career goals.

The relationship among inner meaning of work, protean career, subjective career success

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Soyeon Sin ◽  
Jinkook Tak
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Informal Mentoring ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among inner meaning of work, Protean career and subjective career success. More specially, This study investigated not only the influence of inner meaning of work on subjective career success that is mediated by protean career but also the moderating effect of career-supported mentoring on the relationship between protean career and subjective career success. To perform this study, online survey was conducted by korean employees who were working in various organization and received formal or informal mentoring. Data gathered from 191 employees were used for analyses. The results showed that inner meaning of work had positive effects on protean career as well as subjective career success. Also, protean career partially mediated the relationship between inner meaning of work and subjective career success. Career-supported mentoring moderated the relationship between protean career and subjective career success. The implications and limitations of this study and the directions for future research were discussed.

Calling and Subjective Career Success: Protean Career Attitude As a Mediator

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoo Jin Ha ◽  
Yeeun Choi ◽  
Haeyoung Eun ◽  
Young Woo Sohn
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Subjective Career Success
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