Abstract
This study examined the potential moderating roles of career officer's institutional intention and occupational intention on the relationship between structural/content career plateaus and job involvement in Taiwanese career military officers. Empirical data were collected from 338 career officers who received full-time training at the National Defense University in Taiwan. The results showed that the perception of structural/content career plateaus were both negatively related to job involvement. Furthermore, the results found the supports of the moderating role of institutional intention in the relationship between perceived structural/content career plateaus and job involvement, and the moderating role of occupational intention in the relationship between perceived structural career plateau and job involvement. Practical management and research implications are discussed, and future research directions suggested.
Highlights
Previous literature has documented that plateau employees are more likely to report low organizational identification, high turnover intention [27], low work satisfaction, low effective, and low continuous commitment [17], and less involvement in their work [10]
The interaction of perceptions of structural/content career plateaus and institutional/occupational intentions were entered into the model
The current study advances the body of knowledge concerning institutional/occupational intention, the perception of career plateauing, and job involvement in several ways
Summary
Previous literature has documented that plateau employees are more likely to report low organizational identification, high turnover intention [27], low work satisfaction, low effective, and low continuous commitment [17], and less involvement in their work [10]. Vinokur, Pierce, & Lewandowski-Romps [8] suggested that career plateauing is a source of stress for employees, reducing their job involvement. From a practical perspective, considering the vast number of personnel involved and the increasing pressure to enhance performance in response to the intensification of geopolitical tension, military organizations need to understand how senior officers’ perception of career plateau may adversely affect their job involvement. We seek to understand whether certain individual differences would mitigate the adverse effect of career plateau on job involvement. Drawing on Mosko’s [14] and Cheng & Su [5] institutional and occupational model of military careers, we examined the potential moderating roles of career officer’s institutional intention and occupational intention on the relationship between structural/content career plateaus and job involvement
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