Abstract
to identify the types of career anchors of university hospital nurses and alignment with current work, from the perspective of workers' health. a descriptive and quantitative study, developed in a university hospital with 135 nurses, from December 2018 to February 2019. The Career Orientations Inventory was used as an instrument and an instrument to assess the alignment of career anchors to the current job. it was identified that the most frequent anchors were: Security/Stability, Service/Dedication to a Cause, and Lifestyle. Among nurses, 63.7% were not aligned with their career anchor. the alignment factor is not prevalent among nurses, demonstrating that most seek to meet their professional motivations, but do not find it in their current work, which can lead to physical exhaustion and psychological distress.
Highlights
The Career Orientations Inventory establishes that the reasons for a professional choice are based on the association between talents, skills, competencies, needs, and individual values[1,2]
Recognizing the career anchor allows professionals to seek, in their current job, positions and activities that correspond to it, allowing an alignment between both; such alignment positively influences the results of the work performed, the efficiency of workers and the effectiveness of functions[1], with the potential to generate satisfaction and pleasure at work, which can be a factor in reducing stress, accidents at work, illnesses and psychological distress
Career anchors are classified into: Technical/Functional Competence (TF) - valuing skills and specialization; General Managerial Competence (GM) - appreciation for leadership, interpersonal control and responsibility; Autonomy/Independence (AU) - decision adopting its own criteria and freedom to act; Security/ Stability (SE) - concern for the professional future, stability and experience; Entrepreneurial/Creativity (EC) - needs to create businesses and stimulate their creative impulse; Service/Dedication to a Cause (SV) - search for recognition and support for dedication to helping others; Pure Challenge (CH) - competition and facing challenges; Lifestyle (LS) - balance between personal, social, family, and professional needs[2]
Summary
The Career Orientations Inventory establishes that the reasons for a professional choice are based on the association between talents, skills, competencies, needs, and individual values[1,2]. Career anchors are classified into: Technical/Functional Competence (TF) - valuing skills and specialization; General Managerial Competence (GM) - appreciation for leadership, interpersonal control and responsibility; Autonomy/Independence (AU) - decision adopting its own criteria and freedom to act; Security/ Stability (SE) - concern for the professional future, stability and experience; Entrepreneurial/Creativity (EC) - needs to create businesses and stimulate their creative impulse; Service/Dedication to a Cause (SV) - search for recognition and support for dedication to helping others; Pure Challenge (CH) - competition and facing challenges; Lifestyle (LS) - balance between personal, social, family, and professional needs[2] They can be influenced by generational characteristics, considering that each generation was marked by a career model and specific work aspects[4].it is worth mentioning that the Baby Boomers Generation (born between 1946 and 1964) includes workers who are motivated and optimistic about their occupations, choosing to value their status and career growth within the company to which they are linked. It is essential to identify nurses’career anchors and verify the occurrence of alignment with the current work, subsidizing the implementation of measures to mitigate the harmful effects on professionals’ mental health, as they are in activities that do not correspond to their wishes, values, skills and, above all, needs, improving the quality standards of the assistance offered by them
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