How Impactful Are Grit, I-Deals, and the Glass Ceiling on Subjective Career Success?

Temitope Popoola,Georgiana Karadas

doi:10.3390/su14031136

Abstract

Due to the ever-changing organizational and societal conditions that make reliance on external definitions of success unworkable or undesirable, subjective career success has remained a critical topic in careers studies. Among the drivers of subjective career success, research has identified personality traits and job resources as essential sources. Grit, in the form of a personality trait, together with I-deals (job resource) and perceptions of employees’ glass ceiling can provide new insights regarding factors, which can heighten employees’ subjective career success. Therefore, the main purpose of the study is to investigate the direct and indirect effect of grit on each dimension of subjective career success via I-deals and perceptions of the glass ceiling. Surveys from 221 female security forces from both private and public sector in Oyo state, Nigeria, were collected and the data was analyzed using the smartPLS. The results showed that grit is positively related to I-deals, glass ceiling and career satisfaction, but not to happiness, psychological wellbeing, and work engagement. I-deals mediated the relationship between grit and subjective career success’ dimensions, while the glass ceiling did not. This study was able to infer that personality trait (grit) has much to relate with how women perceive the existence of the glass ceiling in their organization.

Highlights

According to some scholars, an employee who wants to achieve his/her goal successfully must possess a dispositional characteristic-grit [1]
18–27 years of age, 37.1% were between 28–37 years of age, 33.9% were between the age of 38 and 47, 14.9% were 48–57 years of age. and just 1.4% of them were 58 years of age and above
Studies have shown that the employees who display high levels of grit are more likely to achieve career success

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Introduction

An employee who wants to achieve his/her goal successfully must possess a dispositional characteristic-grit [1]. Employees are employed based on the assumptions that the only responsibility attached to them is that of their official duty, and every other chore does not exist or has been handled by someone else [4]. This belief was born out of the conventional assumption of the breadwinner being male, while the female was just a “home maker” [5,6]. As such, this created difficulties for employees who regularly want to pursue their career, while simultaneously be a home maker [7]

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