Probing the interactive effects of career commitment and emotional intelligence on perceived objective/subjective career success

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 724-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razia Sultana ◽  
Amna Yousaf ◽  
Iram Khan ◽  
Abubakr Saeed
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Bank Employees ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Career Literature

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to find out the moderating role of emotional intelligence (EI) in the relationship between career commitment and career success of the bank employees working in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – The study used ex post facto method where 200 middle-level managerial bank employees were surveyed by means of a close-ended questionnaire. Moderated multiple regression was run to test the hypotheses. Findings – As expected, the research findings confirmed the expectation of significant relationship between career commitment and objective/subjective career success. Further, the research findings bolstered one of the research postulates that EI will moderate career commitment-objective career success relationship. However the argument of EI’s moderation between career commitment-subjective career success relationship was not supported by the findings. Originality/value – This paper adds value to the existing body of knowledge by augmenting the need of understanding the distinctiveness of objective and subjective career success. The study unveils the importance of devising separate mechanisms to cater both the objective and subjective career success needs of the employees and enhances the scope of career literature in South Asian settings.

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.

Career adaptability, job crafting and subjective career success: the moderating roles of lone wolf personality and positive perfectionism

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasir Mansoor Kundi ◽  
Sandrine Hollet-Haudebert ◽  
Jonathan Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Lone Wolf ◽  
Moderated Mediation Model ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeUsing career construction theory, the authors empirically examine the mechanism by which career adaptability promotes employee subjective career success (career satisfaction and career commitment) through job crafting.Design/methodology/approachA moderated mediation model is tested using survey data from 324 full-time business professionals in France. Hypotheses are tested using structural equation modeling (SEM).Findingshe authors found that job crafting mediated the relationship between career adaptability and subjective career success (career satisfaction and career commitment). The positive effect of career adaptability on job crafting was greater under higher levels of lone wolf personality and positive perfectionism, as was the indirect effect of career adaptability on subjective career success via job crafting.Research limitations/implicationsdata are cross-sectional in nature. Robust theoretical contentions and affective means of identifying common method variance (CMV) are addressed and evaluated.Practical implicationsHigh levels of career adaptability may be a useful strategy for promoting employee job crafting and subjective career success. In addition, individuals with lone wolf personality and positive perfectionism should be given opportunities to craft their jobs in the workplace.Originality/valueThis research confirms a moderated mediation model positioning job crafting as a mediator of career adaptability's effects on employee subjective career success and lone wolf and positive perfectionism as moderators of such effects. This study suggests that job crafting and career-focused personality traits are important factors that influence the relationship between career adaptability and subjective career success.

Career commitment and subjective career success: the moderating role of career-enhancing strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1287-1305
Author(s):  
Emre Burak Ekmekcioglu ◽  
Mahmure Yelda Erdogan ◽  
Alptekin Sokmen
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to test the moderating role of career-enhancing strategies (CESs) in the relationship between career commitment (CC) and subjective career success (CS).Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 217 full-time employees working for three different sectors in Ankara, Turkey. The participants were asked to respond to a self-reported survey. The hypotheses were tested using a hierarchical regression analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that CC had a significant and positive effect on subjective CS. Furthermore, the positive relationship between CC and subjective CS was stronger for employees with a high level of self-nomination and for employees with a high level of networking. However, creating career opportunities did not moderate the effects of CC on subjective CS.Research limitations/implicationsBecause this study had a cross-sectional research design, causality cannot be established among the study variables.Practical implicationsThe findings suggest a better understanding of the way CC is able to affect subjective CS through the networking and self-nomination CESs.Originality/valueThis study is original, in that no previous studies have investigated the moderating role of CESs in the relationship between CC and subjective CS.

Gender differences in career planning and success

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 603-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuhee Jung ◽  
Norihiko Takeuchi
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Exchange ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Social Exchange Theory ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it attempts to examine how employees’ career planning (CP) interacts with the quality of leader-member exchange (LMX) to explain subjective career success. Second, the authors investigate how the pattern of such interactions differs between male and female employees. Design/methodology/approach – To increase the generalizability, the study tested hypotheses in two studies whose data were collected in different national settings. Study 1 was designed to analyze 144 Korean employees and Study 2 investigated 140 Japanese employees. Both groups of employees worked for privately owned firms. Findings – The authors found a three-way interaction effect between gender, CP, and LMX quality in predicting subjective career success. As hypothesized, the positive relationship between quality of LMX and subjective career success was stronger for males with high CP, whereas for females such a stronger relationship was found for women with low CP. Research limitations/implications – This study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, it extends career research by considering the interactive effects of individual and interpersonal factors on employees’ subjective career success. Second, it combines the research streams of social exchange theory (LMX), career theory (the boundaryless career), and gender theory (agentic and communal personality traits). This suggests that the ideas of the three theories could serve together as a useful framework for explaining gender differences in subjective career success through setting career goals and building relationships with supervisors. Practical implications – The findings have important practical implications for managers and leaders, who generally seek to motivate their employees toward career achievement. Originality/value – This study is one of the first to provide a new perspective for understanding the process by which men and women perceive their subjective career success differently with regard to social exchange relations with their supervisors and CP.

Emotional intelligence strategies to achieve subjective career success: implications for learning and development in knowledge industry

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-26
Author(s):  
Nishant Singh ◽  
Uma Warrier ◽  
Teena Bharti
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Literature Report ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Industry ◽  
Subjective Career Success

Purpose This paper exemplifies the role of emotional intelligence (EI) achieving subjective career success in the global knowledge industry. Design/methodology/approach Discussion based on the literature, report, and industry experts. Findings EI can be used as an effective tool to influence the attributes of subjective career success such as job satisfaction, new skill acquisition, work-life balance, healthy relationship with peers and pride in work. Employees feel empowered and successful in their careers if their social ability, emotionality, self-control, well-being and, expressed behavior are properly taken care of by their organizations. Originality/value This paper introduces a new factor expressed behavior in EI model and suggests various strategies to enhance EI and achieve subjective career success in the knowledge industry.

scholarly journals MODEL PENINGKATAN KESUKSESAN KARIR OBYEKTIF DAN SUBYEKTIF PADA DOSEN PTIS (PERGURUAN TINGGI ISLAM SWASTA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Agus Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Linear Regression ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this research is to improve the objective and subjective career successlecturer at PTIS (private Islamic universities) by stimulating the emotional intelligence, intrinsicmotivation and competence. The population in this study consisted of three Islamic universities inSemarang, namely: Sultan Agung Islamic University (UNISSULA), University of Wahid Hasyim(UNWAHAS) and the University of Muhammadiyah Semarang (UNIMUS). Total questionnairesdistributed to as many as 69 respondents supported by SPSS version 20 as data processorand tools of statistical processing. This study analyzed by linear regression and regressionmoderation. The variables used are: independent variables such as emotional intelligence andintrinsic motivation, moderation variable such as competence and the dependent variable inthe form of objective and subjective career success. The results showed that there is a positiveand significant effect of emotional intelligence on objective and subjective career success andcompetence able to moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and career successsubjective.Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Intrinsic Motivation, Objective Career Success, SubjectiveCareer Success.

When career success enhances employees' life satisfaction: different effects of two types of goal orientations

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Byoung Kwon Choi ◽  
Eun Young Nae
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Goal Orientation ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Moderated Mediation ◽  
Goal Orientations ◽  
Performance Goal ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Learning And Performance

PurposeDrawing on goal orientation theory, the authors propose a moderated mediation model, wherein objective career success is positively related to employees' life satisfaction through subjective career success moderated by learning and performance goal orientations.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 188 employees in South Korea. The hypotheses were tested with the moderated mediation regression analysis.FindingsThe results indicated that salary and promotion, as indicators of objective career success, were positively related to subjective career success. However, subjective career success mediated only the influence of salary, not promotion, on life satisfaction. Furthermore, the authors found that the indirect relationship between salary and life satisfaction via subjective career success was not significant for employees with high learning goal orientation but was significant for those with high performance goal orientation.Practical implicationsOrganizations need to understand that a higher salary and frequent promotions may not always be positively related to employees' satisfaction with career and personal life and should consider the types of goal orientations.Originality/valueThe authors’ consideration of goal orientation as a dispositional characteristic contributes to the comprehensive understanding of how employees' learning and performance goal orientations interact with objective career success in influencing their subjective career and life satisfaction.

scholarly journals Does Work-Life Balance Moderate the Relationship between Career Commitment and Career Success? Evidence from an Emerging Asian Economy

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Usama Najam ◽  
Umar Burki ◽  
Wajiha Khalid
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Middle Level ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between career commitment and employee career success (objective and subjective success) in middle-level employees working in the service sector. Further, the study investigates the moderating effect of work-life balance on the relationship between career commitment and career success. By analyzing data from 360 middle level working employees, our empirical results show that career commitment has a positive and significant effect on the objective and subjective career success of employees. Work-life balance positively moderates the relationship between career commitment and subjective career success, whereas it fails to moderate the relationship between career commitment and objective career success. The study contributes by providing a better understanding of the employee’s perception of career commitment and career success and their management in emerging markets. Avenues for future research are identified.

Servant leadership and career success: the effects of career skills and proactive personality

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 717-730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Kun Yu ◽  
Ruobing Xi ◽  
Xiaodan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Servant Leadership ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Proactive Personality ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Matched Data ◽  
Career Skills

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of servant leadership on followers’ subjective career success and the mediating role of career skills. The moderating effect of followers’ proactive personality is also investigated. Design/methodology/approach This paper collected two-wave matched data from 283 employees of an IT company. The authors use hierarchical regression and bootstrapping to test the hypotheses. Findings Servant leadership has a positive effect on career satisfaction and perceived employability through career skills. In addition, proactive personality moderates the association between servant leadership and career skills, such that the relationship is stronger when proactive personality is high. Proactive personality also moderates the indirect effect of servant leadership on career satisfaction and perceived employability. Practical implications The findings suggest that organizations should select and train leaders to practice servant leadership to enhance employee subjective career success. Originality/value This is the first study to investigate the mechanism and boundary conditions of the association between servant leadership and employee subjective career success.

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