How career adaptability can enhance career satisfaction: Exploring the mediating role of person–job fit

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hung-Chieh Yen ◽  
Jen-Wei Cheng ◽  
Chin-Tien Hsu ◽  
Kuo-Ching Yen
Keyword(s):  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Career Construction Theory

Abstract This study examined the operation of resources as a mechanism underlying the relationship between career adaptability and career satisfaction. Based on career construction theory and conservation of resources theory, we examined the interactive effects of career adaptability, career satisfaction, person–job fit, and job uncertainty. The results of two-wave data collection from 234 full-time workers revealed that employees with stronger career adaptability were more likely to report career satisfaction. The full mediating effect was found of person–job fit. Specifically, we found that career adaptability enhances person–job fit, which results in greater career satisfaction. Additional analysis revealed that job uncertainty interferes with the mediation model. We identified a new antecedent of career satisfaction (i.e., person–job fit) and revealed the functional mechanism underlying the effect of this antecedent. This study provides novel insights valuable to the field of career management.

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.

Examining the Mediating Role of Person–Job Fit in the Relationship between Training and Performance: A Civil Servant Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 529-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahid H. Bhat ◽  
Riyaz A. Rainayee
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Employee Training ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Job Fit ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

In a dynamic environment, the nature of work tasks continues to change requiring employees to learn new knowledge and skills to perform their jobs effectively. Training is among the crucial strategies of an organization, which helps employees to acquire those necessary knowledge and skills to meet the challenges. The linkage between training and performance has been robustly studied in the literature suggesting that training is a major determinant of employees’ performance. Further, literature in the field of industrial/organizational psychology implies the effect of person–job fit on the relations between training and performance. The purpose of this study is to examine the degree of direct and indirect relationship between employee training (TR) and performance (PER), conceiving the mediating role of job fit (JF), as few studies have been reported in literature so far. The hypotheses were tested on a sample of 171 civil service officers by structural equation modelling technique using partial least square (PLS) approach to measure and test the proposed structural relationships. The results confirm that employee training and job fit are directly related with improvement in job performance. The results also demonstrate the significant mediating effect of job fit on employee performance. This article contributes to the existing body of literature by examining both the direct and indirect effect of employee training on job performance. Moreover, job fit is established to partially mediate the relationship between them. The findings of this study provide useful information for policymakers to improve employees’ job fit and their performance by means of employee training. The limitations to the study and directions for future research are discussed as well.

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.

scholarly journals The link between problematic internet use, problematic gaming, and psychological distress: does sleep quality matter?

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Wang ◽  
Komi Mati ◽  
Yong Cai
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Sleep Quality ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Problematic Internet Use ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Problematic Gaming

Abstract Introduction This study aimed to examine the mediating role of sleep quality in the association of problematic internet use (PIU) and problematic gaming with psychological distress among college students in China. Methods Data of 1040 full-time students from multiple colleges in China were examined. Respondents were asked about their internet use and gaming behaviors, sleep quality, psychological distress, and sociodemographic characteristics. The mediating role of sleep quality in the PIU- and problematic gaming-psychological distress link was examined respectively. Results PIU was associated with decreased sleep quality (r = .32, p < .001) and increased psychological distress (r = .46, p < .001). Problematic gaming was also associated with decreased sleep quality (r = .22, p < .001) and increased psychological distress (r = .46, p < .001). Sleep quality accounted for 23.5% of the indirect effect of PIU on psychological distress, and 17.9% of the indirect effect of problematic gaming on psychological distress. Conclusions Sleep quality had a meaningful mediating effect on the PIU-psychological distress link, but only exerted a small mediating effect on the problematic gaming-psychological distress link. In addition to promoting healthy internet usage, strategies aimed at mitigating the negative effect of excessive internet use on psychological health might benefit from those aimed at improving sleep quality.

scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Mindset between Intolerance of Uncertainty and Career Adaptability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7099
Author(s):  
Ahram Lee ◽  
Eunju Jung
Keyword(s):  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Inverse Association ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Work Transition ◽  
Korean College Students

Entrepreneurship education has been employed broadly in higher education, and one of the most popularly targeted outcomes is enhancing entrepreneurial mindset. However, the role of entrepreneurial mindset has not been examined in relation to career adaptability, which has been acknowledged as an important resource for adjustment, especially with the increased uncertainty caused by COVID-19. The current study investigated the relations among intolerance of uncertainty—specifically its sub-factors, prospective anxiety and inhibitory anxiety—career adaptability, and entrepreneurial mindset in 274 Korean college students facing school-to-work transition during COVID-19. The study conducted path analysis and evaluated the mediating effect of entrepreneurial mindset, using a 95% bootstrapping confidence interval, to better understand the role of entrepreneurial mindset in general career development in the context of uncertainty. The results found that inhibitory anxiety had an inverse association with career adaptability and entrepreneurial mindset, while prospective anxiety had a positive relation with career adaptability and entrepreneurial mindset. Entrepreneurial mindset and career adaptability showed a significantly positive relation, and the mediating role of entrepreneurial mindset between intolerance of uncertainty and career adaptability was also supported. Discussions on the role of entrepreneurial mindset are initiated and practical implications for entrepreneurship education are proposed along with the limitations of the study.

scholarly journals Impact of Supervisors’ Perceived Communication Style on Subordinate’s Psychological Capital and Cyberloafing

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Upasna A Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Communication Style ◽  
Conservation Of Resources ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Managerial Employees ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing from Conservation of Resources Theory (COR), the purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of supervisor’s perceived communication style (passive, aggressive, and assertive styles) on subordinates PsyCap and cyberloafing. The study also tests the mediating role of PsyCap in the relationship between perceived communication style (CS) of supervisor and cyberloafing. In total, 680 full-time managerial employees from seven diverse firms in India were studied through questionnaire survey. Standard instruments were used to assess the constructs. Results revealed that perceived CS of supervisors-assertive, aggressive and passive styles have an impact on cyberloafing. PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between supervisors perceived assertive and aggressive perceived CS and cyberloafing. Theoretical contributions and managerial implications of the study are discussed.

scholarly journals The Effect of Perceived Transformational Leadership Style on Employee Engagement: The Mediating Effect of Leader’s Emotional Intelligence

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Marwan Milhem ◽  
Habsah Muda ◽  
Khalil Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Transformational Leadership ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Transformational Leadership Style

Abstract Employee engagement has been at the center of attention for human resource personnel and researchers who stated that employee engagement can be a key driver of an organization's business success. Many researchers have found in recent researches that a transformational leadership style has a beneficial connection with employee engagement. Thus, this study aims to find the causal effect of perceived transformational leadership on employee engagement through the mediating role of leader’s emotional intelligence. We analyze the data from a sample of 338 full-time employees working in the ICT sector in Palestine using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modelling (SEM) to test the hypothesis. Later, the bootstrapping analysis was conducted to confirm the mediation test in this study. The finding shows that transformational leadership style has a significant effect on employee engagement for the mediating role of emotional intelligence. The effect of transformational leadership on employee engagement was found to be completely mediated by leader’s emotional intelligence at work. Theoretically, this empirical study contributed to the new knowledge on the unique mediating effects of leader’s emotional intelligence in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement in the Middle Eastern Region. Practically, this study has managerial implication in the area of organizational management, leadership and human resource management.

Why adaptable individuals perform better: The role of orientation to happiness

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeeha A Sattar ◽  
Muhammad Imran Rasheed ◽  
Ikram Ullah Khan ◽  
Hussain Tariq ◽  
Jawad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Career Construction Theory ◽  
Career Construction ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Practical Implications

Based on career construction theory, this research aimed to investigate the mediating role of orientation to happiness in the relationship between career adaptability and in-role and extra-role performance of employees in the hospitality industry. Using data collected from 360 respondents working in 6 five-star hotels in Pakistan, the authors found that career adaptability was positively associated with orientation to happiness, in-role performance, and extra-role performance. Moreover, orientation to happiness mediated the relationship between career adaptability and both in-role and extra-role performance. The study has important theoretical and practical implications.

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