Relationship between protean career orientation and employability: Does career capital mediate the relationship?

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Shantha kumary Mahenthiran Aloysius
Keyword(s):  
Career Orientation ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Career Capital ◽  
The Relationship

The multiple mediating effects of Korean workers’ perception of the fourth industrial revolution, career attitudes and future learning intent

2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Moon ◽  
Sungpyo Hong
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Career Attitudes ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Learning Intention ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Future Learning

Purpose This study aims at analyzing the impact of perceptions of the fourth industrial revolution (crisis and opportunity) in the relationship between workers’ career attitudes and future learning intentions. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzed the multiple mediating effect of the perception of the fourth industrial revolution in the relationship between career attitudes and future learning intention using data of 305 Korean workers. As career attitude variables, boundaryless and protean career orientation variables were used, and perception of the fourth industrial revolution was analyzed (opportunity and crisis perception). Findings Both workers’ boundaryless career orientation and protean career orientation influenced future learning intention through the perception of opportunity for the fourth industrial revolution. This result suggested that flexible career attitudes positively recognized the changes of the fourth industrial revolution and had an effect on promoting attitude toward future learning. Research limitations/implications The study confirmed that workers’ flexible career attitudes could promote perception of opportunity rather than crisis in changing situation and strengthen their intention to prepare for the future by mediating this perception. These results suggest that lifelong learning and competency development can be reinforced by facilitating perception of an opportunities for external change for individual career development. Originality/value Insights for personal career development were provided by analyzing the relationship between flexible career attitudes, which are increasing in importance in the modern society, and perceptions of changes in external environment.

scholarly journals The Interaction Between Protean Career Orientation, Career Goal Development and Well-being Outcomes: Evidence from Professional Engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Norizan Baba Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Career Satisfaction ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Career Goal ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Goal Development ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Experiencing strong personal development and growth are important for engineers, compared to professionals in other fields. Nevertheless, if career goal development behaviour is not present in sufficient quantities, engineers would be at risk if their own goals and expectations are not aligned with the companies they are working for. As a result, it may have a negative impact on their well-being. In this article, a sample of professional engineers (N=387) were utilised to examine the relationship between protean career orientation towards career goal development, career satisfaction and psychological well-being and to examine the mediating effect of career goal development between protean career orientation toward career satisfaction and psychological well-being. The research model was tested using the goal setting theory. The results of a partial least square (PLS) regression demonstrated that protean career orientation had a positive effect towards career goal development; subsequently career goal development had a positive effect on career satisfaction and psychological well-being. On the other hand, career goal development was found not to mediate the relationship between protean career orientation towards career satisfaction and psychological well-being. Based on the findings, this research suggests employers and industries encourage their unlicensed engineers to register as graduate engineers, so that later they can upgrade themselves to professional engineers’ status, as eventually this would help them to experience their job in a more meaningful way, and consequently increase their work happiness.

Linking Protean Career Orientation with Career Optimism: Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy as Mediators

2020 ◽  
pp. 089484532091252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hazel Chui ◽  
Hui Li ◽  
Hang-yue Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Social Construction Theory ◽  
Career Optimism ◽  
The Relationship

Protean career orientation has become prevalent among young workers in contemporary workplace. Little is known about whether this orientation is related to their positive expectation of future career development. We developed a conceptual model to investigate the relationship between protean career orientation and career optimism. Informed by social construction theory and social cognitive career theory, we considered career adaptability and career decision self-efficacy (CDSE) as potential mediators in the model. Several hypotheses were proposed and tested with a sample of 170 undergraduate students in Hong Kong. The results of path analysis and bootstrapping indicated that protean career orientation has a positive relationship with career optimism, and such relationship is fully mediated by career adaptability and CDSE. Our study has yielded novel into how some individual differences factors affect the development of career optimism among university students.

scholarly journals Emotion Regulation and Employability: The Mediational Role of Ambition and a Protean Career among Unemployed People

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9347
Author(s):  
Chiara Panari ◽  
Michela Tonelli ◽  
Greta Mazzetti
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Direct Relationship ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Job Searching ◽  
The Relationship

Literature on job searching suggests that emotion regulation has an impact on employability, but this relationship is far from being explained; furthermore, most of the studies have been conducted among students or workers. The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between emotion regulation and employability among unemployed people, analyzing the role of ambition and protean career orientation as possible factors in such a relationship. Participants were 228 unemployed subjects who had requested individual counselling for job searching; data were collected by means of a self-report questionnaire. Results confirmed that emotion regulation is related to employability, both through a direct relationship and through an indirect effect of ambition and protean career orientation.

Linking protean career orientation to well-being: the role of psychological capital

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzhan Li
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Career Orientation ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Protean Career ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of protean career orientation (PCO) and psychological capital (PsyCap) on well-being among knowledge workers.Design/methodology/approachThe author adopted a two-wave cross-lagged design. In total, 518 knowledge workers at three enterprises in China were sampled to complete the Direnzoet al.’s (2015) Protean Career Orientation Questionnaire, Luthanset al.’s (2007) Psychological Capacity Questionnaire, and Ryff and Keyes’ (1995) Psychological Well-Being Scale. The main statistical methods involved descriptive statistics, structural equation modeling, and bootstrapping analysis.FindingsThe findings of the study were as follows: PCO positively predicted PsyCap among knowledge workers; both PCO and PsyCap positively contributed to knowledge workers’ well-being; and knowledge workers’ PsyCap partially mediated the relationship between their PCO and well-being.Originality/valueRare empirical studies were conducted on the relationship between PCO and psychological well-being. The previous findings are inconsistent on whether PCO is an antecedent of PsyCap, or PsyCap is an antecedent of PCO. The author conducted a cross-lagged survey to examine the above relationships; to certain extent, the present study addresses the research gap and contributes to the burgeoning literature.

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