scholarly journals The relation between career anchors, occupational types and job satisfaction of midcareer employees

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. Ellison ◽  
A. M. G. Schreuder
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Career Anchors ◽  
Career Anchor ◽  
Intrinsic Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Individual

The objective of this research was to determine the value of the career anchor model in career decision-making. Career models that can provide the individual with greater self-insight can serve as an important guide when making career choices in todays turbulent working environment. Two hundred and ninety-five midcareer employees (managerial and non-managerial) completed questionnaires to determine their career anchor, occupation type and levels of general, intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction. The differences in job satisfaction between employees with a fit between career anchor and occupational type and those with no such fit were compared. It was found that respondents with a fit had a significantly higher level of general and intrinsic job satisfaction than those with no such fit. It is therefore suggested that the career anchor construct could probably serve as a useful tool for midcareer employees to make career choices. Opsomming Die doel van hierdie ondersoek was om die waarde van die loopbaanankermodel in loopbaanbesluitneming te bepaal. Loopbaanmodelle wat individue van groter insig kan voorsien kan as n belangrike riglyn in vandag se turbulente werksomgewing dien. Tweehonderd vyf-en-negentig middelloopbaan-werknemers (bestuur en nie-bestuur) het vraelyste voltooi om hulle loopbaanankers, beroepstipe en vlakke van algemene, intrinsieke en ekstrinsieke werkstevredenheid te bepaal. Die verskille in werkstevredenheid tussen werknemers met n passing tussen loopbaananker en beroepstipe en die sender n sodanige passing, is vergelyk. Daar is bevind dat respondente met n passing 'n beduidende hoer vlak van algemene en intrinsieke werkstevredenheid het as die sender so 'n passing. Daar word derhalwe voorgestel dat die loopbaanankermodel waarskynlik as n nuttige instrument by middelloopbaan-werknemers gebruik kan word om loopbaanbesluite te neem.

Leaving academia: why do doctoral graduates take up non-academic jobs and to what extent are they prepared?

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhua Chen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Doctoral Graduates ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Employment ◽  
Academic Positions

Purpose An increasing number of doctoral graduates are seeking non-academic employment. While statistics have revealed multiple aspects regarding the non-academic employment they hold, there is insufficient documentation of what has led them to leave academia and to what extent they are prepared for non-academic positions. This paper aims to address this gap and reports on five Chinese doctoral graduates’ reflections on their change in career choices. Design/methodology/approach This study is exploratory and follows the approach of qualitative multi-case studies. The data includes in-depth interviews with five Chinese doctoral graduates and their responses to a survey. The paper applies a theoretical perspective drawing from protean career and boundaryless career theories, focusing on the participants’ agency in managing career choices and their meaning making of career decision-making. Findings The study has found that, besides the factors mentioned in the literature, such as lack of academic positions, pressure related to academic work and lack of career planning, some participants were directed by their intrinsic values, and agency plays an important role in their career preparation. Practical implications The study makes recommendations on university career guidance for doctoral students. Originality/value This paper documents why and how doctoral students change their career choices, which have not been sufficiently documented in the literature. As well, the theoretical perspective used provides an innovative way to interpret doctoral students' career decision-making.

scholarly journals Differences regarding job satisfaction and job involvement of psychologists with different dominant career anchors

Curationis ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
CL Bester ◽  
T Mouton
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Free State ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Career Anchors ◽  
Career Anchor ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Career Orientations ◽  
Intrinsic Job Satisfaction

In order to contribute to higher levels of job satisfaction, job involvement , and productivity, a match or fit should be established between the dominant career anchor associated with a specific occupation and that of the employee. A career anchor is an individual’s set of self-perceived talents, abilities, motives, needs and values that form the nucleus of one’s occupational self-concept. Psychologists have always been part of the service orientated careers and therefore one would expect that it is likely that their dominant career anchor would be service orientation. If this is the case, psychologists with service as their dominant career anchor are supposed to have greater job satisfaction and job involvement compared to those with different career anchors. However, according to literature, this assumption is not necessarily correct. The primary goals of the current study were to determine whether in fact service is the dominant career anchor of psychologists in the Free State and whether there are significant differences regarding job satisfaction and job involvement between psychologists with and without service as their dominant career anchor. A third goal was to determine whether psychologists with different dominant career anchors differ significantly from one another regarding job satisfaction and job involvement. Questionnaires measuring career orientations, job satisfaction and job involvement were sent to 165 of the 171 registered psychologists in the Free State region. Only 75 psychologists (45,5%) responded which exceeded the traditional return rate of 20 to 30%. Due to the small sample of respondents, a nonparametric statistical test, namely the Mann Whitney U test was conducted to determine possible differences. An analysis of the data showed that 21 respondents had entrepreneurship as their dominant career orientation while 12 fell in the technical/functional, 12 in the challenging, 9 in the service and 8 in the autonomy categories of dominant career anchors. No significant differences regarding job satisfaction between psychologists with and without service as dominant career orientation could be determined. Both groups experienced a fairly high degree of job satisfaction and a higher level of intrinsic job satisfaction occurred compared to extrinsic job satisfaction. A significant difference between the two groups in terms of job involvement occurred. Psychologists with service as dominant career orientation showed a higher level of job involvement, although the degree of job involvement for both groups was fairly low. No significant differences regarding job satisfaction and job involvement among psychologists with different career orientations could be found.

scholarly journals A psychometric evaluation of the career decision making self-efficacy scale

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chandra Yudistira Purnama ◽  
Linda Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Internal Structure ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Career Decision Making

The assessment tool for a career currently being developed requires special treatment from a psychologist/psychometrist. The measurements are conducted when students are confused about career options. However, for students who have decided, it is uncommon for them to seek professional help. Psychological tools that focus on capturing information about students’ maturity in relation to their ability to make career decisions can help them choose a major that’s suitable for their career. This study concern on adapting the career decision-making self efficacy (CDMSE) that can predict one’s confidence in his/her ability to make career choices. The adaptation of this instrument went through several stages such as translation, back translation, testing the reliability, and testing the validity evidence of content and internal structure using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). This study used a sample of 539 high school students in Bandung and Cimahi. The construct reliability (CR) of the instrument was α=0.929. The evidence for internal structure using CFA showed that the CDMSE scale has an acceptable goodness of fit index. The standardized loading factor item in the range 0.710-0.998. It can be concluded that the Bahasa Indonesia version of the CDMSE scale has good psychometric properties and can be used for research or assessment to measure a person’s degree of confidence about his/her ability to make career choices.

Career decision-making self-efficacy mediates the effect of social support on career adaptability: A longitudinal study

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunna Hou ◽  
Yuzhen Wu ◽  
Zhijun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
The Individual

In constructivist approaches to research on career adaptability it has been conceptualized that the development of one’s career is formed from the interplay between the individual and the environment. In this study we utilized structural equation modeling analysis of longitudinal data obtained from 145 Chinese undergraduate students to examine the effects of social support and career decision-making self-efficacy on career adaptability. Our results provided important evidence regarding the effects of career decision-making self-efficacy, which functions as a significant mediator of the effects of social support on career adaptability. We provide integrative conclusions for explaining the relationships between the environment, the individual, and the individual’s career outcome, and have enriched constructivist theories of careers, providing implications for counseling and practice.

scholarly journals Understanding the Factors Influencing Junior Doctors’ Career Decision-Making to Address Rural Workforce Issues: Testing a Conceptual Framework

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Cuesta-Briand ◽  
Mathew Coleman ◽  
Rebekah Ledingham ◽  
Sarah Moore ◽  
Helen Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strong Association ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Rural Practice ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Rural Work

Medical graduates’ early career is known to be disorienting, and career decision-making is influenced by a complex set of factors. There is a strong association between rural background and rural undergraduate training and rural practice, and personal and family factors have been shown to influence workplace location, but the interaction between interest, training availability, and other work-relevant factors has not yet been fully explored. A qualitative study conducted by the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) and WA Country Health Service (WACHS) explored factors influencing the decision to pursue rural work among junior doctors. Data collection and analysis was iterative. In total, 21 junior doctors were recruited to participate in semi-structured telephone interviews. Two main themes relating to the systems of influence on career decision-making emerged: (1) The importance of place and people, and (2) the broader context. We found that career decision-making among junior doctors is influenced by a complex web of factors operating at different levels. As Australia faces the challenge of developing a sustainable rural health workforce, developing innovative, flexible strategies that are responsive to the individual aspirations of its workforce whilst still meeting its healthcare service delivery needs will provide a way forward.

432 What Are the Promoting and Discouraging Factors for Choosing A Career in Surgery According to Undergraduate Medical Students in A District General Hospital? A Questionnaire and Review of The Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Harris
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
District General Hospital ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Surgical Career

Abstract Introduction The aim was to identify which factors promote and discourage undergraduate medical students, based in a district general hospital, for choosing a career in surgery. A review of the current literature on this topic was undertaken in conjunction with the questionnaire. Method An online structured questionnaire was sent to all undergraduate clinical medical students based in Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH), a teaching DGH. As well as the questionnaire, a systematic review of the literature was conducted on EMBASE, MEDLINE and Google Scholar using key search terms to review factors that influenced surgical career choices. Results The response rate was 46% (44/95). 75% of students rated variety of work, intellectually interesting and environment as the most important factors for their future careers. Status, financial rewards, and research opportunities were least important influences for respondents’ career decision making. A systematic literature review highlights that lifestyle factors, work-life balance were particularly important, perceived prestige and financial rewards were associated surgical career choices amongst medical students. Conclusions Multiple factors influence medical students career decision making and it is important to identify these factors for many reasons. Further research is recommended to further explore medical students’ perceptions on promoting and discouraging factors for surgical careers.

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