THE INFLUENCE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MOBILITY ON CAREER AND SATISFACTION IN BANKING INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES

Abstract

Nowadays, community perceives changing job as a common phenomena due to the influenceof boundaryless careers. Boundaryless careers affect the size of one's success, both in termsof job and career satisfaction. This research aims to study whether psychological mobility hasan effect on physical mobility as well as job and career situations on bank employees inSurabaya, Indonesia. To test the hypothesis, this study selected 116 bank employees inSurabaya as respondents. This research uses quantitative methods, and Partial Least Square(PLS) analysis technique. The criteria set for the respondents in this study were employeeswho worked in the lending, funding, and operations sections. This study uses purposivesampling as a non probability sampling techniques, which makes use of certainconsiderations in determining the respondents eligible to become a sample. The results of thisstudy indicate that the respondent's answer to the Physical Mobility (PHM) variable is thelow category with 2.22 value. This shows that the number of respondents who move ortransfer is low. While the average respondent's answer to the Career Satisfaction (CS)variable is 2.68, which is categories as moderate and the average respondent's answer to theJob Satisfaction (JS) variable is 3.01, also categorized to be moderate. Psychological mobilityhas a positive effect on physical mobility, while negative effect on career satisfaction and jobsatisfaction. On the other hand, physical mobility shows a negative effect on careersatisfaction and has no significant effect on job satisfaction. This research is considered asuseful based on the practical side of the result, it which it can be used as material forconsideration and planning for individual employees in taking psychological action as well asphysical mobility to support their career success.