Career Adaptability With or Without Career Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Haibo ◽  
Guan Xiaoyu ◽  
Zheng Xiaoming ◽  
Hou Zhijin
Keyword(s):  
Career Counseling ◽  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Career Identity ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
The Relationship

Based on career construction theory, this study examined the relationships between career adaptability, organizational success, and individual career success with the moderating effect of career identity. Using a time-lagged survey design, we tested the proposed model on a sample of 1,652 employees from 20 Chinese companies. The results showed that career adaptability was negatively related to turnover intention but positively associated with supervisor-rated job performance, career satisfaction, and yearly income. In addition, the relationship between career adaptability and turnover intention was significantly positive for employees with low levels of career identity. Moreover, the positive relationship between career adaptability and career satisfaction was stronger for employees with high levels of career identity, and the relationship between career adaptability and yearly income was significantly positive for employees with high levels of career identity. We discuss the research implications for the development of career adaptability and career counseling.

Role of Career Adaptability and Its Resources in Predicting Vocational Attitudes of Indian IT Professionals

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-192
Author(s):  
Sayoni Santra ◽  
V. N. Giri
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Dynamic State ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
It Professionals ◽  
Career Identity ◽  
Vocational Success ◽  
And Control

Indian Information Technology (IT) market is going through a dynamic state of existence with employment uncertainties, but simultaneously creating promising opportunities. Amidst such unpredictability and possibilities, Indian IT professionals have been striving hard to build a career identity, demonstrating their capabilities to withstand unforeseen and abrupt vocational shocks. In career construction, such capability comes from career adaptability, reflected through resources of concern, control, curiosity and confidence. Yet, attention towards career adaptability is sparse in Indian IT vocational literature. The present study attempts to fill that gap by examining career adaptability and its links with vocational attitudes of career satisfaction and turnover intention. For this, data were collected from 434 Indian IT professionals. Overall, career adaptability was positively related to career satisfaction while turnover intention was independent of it. At the dimensional level, independently, all resources of career adaptability were positively related to career satisfaction. Concern and confidence had relatively greater degree of positive association than curiosity and control. Further, concern led to increased turnover intention, other resources being unrelated to it. Findings may facilitate human resource management of Indian IT organizations and independent career practitioners to enhance the vocational success of their employees and clients.

The effects of work social support and career adaptability on career satisfaction and turnover intentions

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Osman M Karatepe ◽  
Olusegun A Olugbade
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Work Social Support ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractApplying career construction theory, this study develops and tests a research model that investigates whether career adaptability mediates the effect of work social support on career satisfaction and turnover intentions. Data obtained from frontline hotel employees with a 2-week time lag in three waves in Nigeria were used to assess the previously mentioned relationships. The results from structural equation modeling suggest that work social support boosts career adaptability and career satisfaction, while it mitigates turnover intentions. Surprisingly, the results suggest that career adaptability triggers turnover intentions, while it has no bearing on career satisfaction. The results further suggest that career adaptability partially mediates the relationship between work social support and turnover intentions.

Servant leadership and work-family enrichment among hotel employees in Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-385
Author(s):  
Anastasia Ozturk ◽  
Osman M. Karatepe
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Survey Design ◽  
Customer Contact ◽  
Propensity To Leave ◽  
Service Recovery Performance ◽  
Time Lagged ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Family Enrichment

This study investigates work-to-family enrichment (WFE) and family-to-work enrichment (FWE) as the two intervening mechanisms linking servant leadership to propensity to leave work early (PLE) and service recovery performance (SRP). Data gathered from hotel customer-contact employees via a time-lagged survey design and their immediate supervisors in Russia were used to assess the aforesaid relationships through structural equation modelling. As predicted, servant leadership stimulates both WFE and FWE and boosts SRP, while it alleviates PLE. Consistent with the study prediction, WFE partly mediates the linkage between servant leadership and SRP. As hypothesized, FWE partly mediates the relationship between servant leadership and PLE. The rest of the linkages are not supported by the empirical data.

Effects of work passion on turnover intention for Chinese government employees: The dualistic model of passion perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 502-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenxing Gong ◽  
Ying Zhang ◽  
Jinfeng Ma ◽  
Yao Liu ◽  
Yujia Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Harmonious Passion ◽  
Obsessive Passion ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Work Passion

AbstractTurnover intention is a negative outcome for an organization. The purpose of this article is to examine the relationships among work passion, subjective well-being, career adaptability, and turnover intention for Chinese government employees. The article consists of an empirical study with a sample of 472 government employees in Shandong Province, China. Participants completed a series of questionnaires in three waves. The results indicate that harmonious passion is negatively related to turnover intention and that obsessive passion is positively related to turnover intention. Additionally, the relationship between harmonious/obsessive passion and turnover is mediated by subjective well-being, and career adaptability moderates the relationship between harmonious/obsessive passion and subjective well-being. Implications are discussed.

The relationship between career adaptability and job outcomes via fit perceptions: A three-wave longitudinal study

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 196-204
Author(s):  
Harleen Kaur ◽  
Rajpreet Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Job Outcomes ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Person Environment Fit ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing on the career construction theory and person–environment fit theory, the current research aimed to investigate whether career adaptability could enhance job outcomes. Further, the study examined the role of person–job fit as an underlying mechanism explaining the relationship between career adaptability and job outcomes. The data were collected in three waves from 239 Indian banking employees. The results suggest that possessing psychosocial meta-capacities in the form of career adaptability stimulates employees’ self-regulation in achieving a work–environment fit, consequently leading to favourable job outcomes. The current study is the first to validate the psychological pathways linking career adaptability and job outcomes via person–job fit. Study findings carry implications for career practitioners/counsellors to acknowledge the role of career adaptability in regulating individual capacities for career development. Elaborating the interconnection between domains of career and jobs, the study encourages organizations to consider career adaptability for improving fit and job outcomes.

Openness to Experience and the Career Adaptability of Refugees: How Do Career Optimism and Family Social Support Matter?

2021 ◽  
pp. 106907272110415
Author(s):  
Alexander Newman ◽  
Karen Dunwoodie ◽  
Zhou Jiang ◽  
Ingrid Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Family Social Support ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Career Construction ◽  
Career Optimism ◽  
The Relationship

The present study examines the antecedents of the career adaptability of people from a refugee background. Drawing on career construction theory, it specifically examines whether openness to experience fosters career adaptability through enhancing career optimism. In addition, it examines whether family social support moderates the relationship between openness to experience and career optimism, and moderates the mediated relationship between openness to experience and career adaptability through career optimism. Analysis of three waves of data from people from a refugee background seeking employment in metropolitan Australia found support for the hypothesized relationships. In particular, career optimism was found to fully mediate the relationship between openness to experience and career adaptability. In addition, family social support was found to substitute for low levels of openness to experience.

Sanctification of work and turnover of teachers under insurgency

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-186
Author(s):  
Linus Jonathan Vem ◽  
Yakubu Ali Mbasua ◽  
Makrop Davireng
Keyword(s):  
Turnover Intention ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Turnover Intentions ◽  
Intention To Leave ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Sanctification of work research is still a growing area among management and educational guild of researchers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the intervening role of career satisfaction and affective commitment in the relationship between sanctification and turnover intentions among teachers in a Boko Haram infested region of Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The authors adopted a cross-sectional survey design using 375 responses out of the 600 administered questionnaires to three states within the context of this study. The usable data were analyzed using SmartPLS version 3.2.7 to evaluate the hypothesized relationships. Findings The results reveal: negative but insignificant relationship between sanctification and turnover intention; career satisfaction and affective commitment mediate the relationship between sanctification of work and employee intention to leave. Originality/value The predictive role of sanctification was proven to be insignificant under unfriendly work environment, which is contrary to the literature on the role sanctification. The mediating role of career satisfaction and affective commitment between sanctification and turnover intention is relatively new. The two constructs constitute the mechanism through which the relationships are sustained; hence the hypotheses on the indirect relationships are established.

scholarly journals Cultivating Proactive Career Behavior: The Role of Career Adaptability and Job Embeddedness

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Peng ◽  
Yu Song ◽  
Guangtao Yu
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Focus ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Underlying Mechanism ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Promotion Focus ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars have widely acknowledged that proactive career behavior is essential for individuals to proactively build their careers, as well as facilitate positive career outcomes. However, there are still many questions about how to activate proactive career behavior. In the current study, we consider whether, how and when regulatory focus of individuals would evoke their proactive career behavior. Based on career construction theory, we utilized the career adaptability framework to develop and test the mediating effect of individual regulatory focus on proactive career behavior through career adaptability. Moreover, we further proposed that job embeddedness plays a contingency role in moderating the extent to which regulatory focus contributes to proactive career behavior with the mediation of career adaptability differently and uniquely. Using a sample of 247 participants and collecting data in three waves, we found that the promotion focus of employees positively influences their proactive career behavior through the mediation of career adaptability. Furthermore, the indirect effect of promotion focus on proactive career behavior via career adaptability was moderated by the dichotomy of job embeddedness of individuals respectively and differently. Specifically, the positive relationship between promotion focus and proactive career behavior via the mediation of career adaptability was strengthened by the on-the-job embeddedness of employees, whereas the relationship was weakened by their off-the-job embeddedness. The overall findings broaden our understanding in terms of the underlying mechanism of proactive career behavior, suggesting that the promotion focus of individuals fosters proactive career behavior via career adaptability, and on-the-job and off-the-job embeddedness as contingency factors alter the effect of career adaptability.

Work Values and Career Adaptability of Chinese University Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lihui Ye
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Work Values ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Chinese University ◽  
Adaptive Capabilities ◽  
Chinese University Students ◽  
Extrinsic Work Values ◽  
The Relationship

I conducted a survey to examine the relationship between work values and career adaptability in a sample of 407 Chinese university students. I validated an extrinsic–intrinsic work values structure through principal components analysis, based on self-determination theory. The results showed that extrinsic work values, such as the importance of high income and good working conditions, and intrinsic work values, such as emphasis on creativity and challenge, and a friendly workplace atmosphere, positively predicted the career adaptability of the participants. Thus, the driving force of both extrinsic and intrinsic work values meant that the students were likely to put effort into developing adaptive capabilities for their career development. The implications of these findings for career education and career counseling practice are discussed.

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