Abstract
The purpose of this research was to find out how workplace flexibility affects the employees’ flexibility in order to increase their career satisfaction while reducing their workplace stress with the mediating role of goal orientation. Employees need workplace flexibility to develop a better sustainable career. In doing so, the relationship between workplace flexibility and career satisfaction can be affected by two different factors. One of them is job stress, which can be a mediating factor, and the second is goal orientation, which in this study was considered as a moderator between two variables. For this research, a quantitative research method was applied, and a survey was distributed to 216 respondents, namely, everyone working in handling in a single aviation sector of North Cyprus, to obtain better and clearer results from the respondents. A pilot test was completed and data were collected face-to-face in order to observe the reaction of respondents to develop better results and reduce any mistakes that could arise by answering the questionnaire. Moreover, in order to test the reliability of questionnaires, a pilot test was completed with 14% of the respondents and the results were evaluated by examining Cronbach’s alpha. Job stress is a negative term; therefore, surprisingly, there was a positive correlation between workplace flexibility and job stress in the findings. The results were discussed and specifically analyzed with the literature review. Findings of the article clarify that workplace flexibility, along with goal orientation, is expected to positively contribute to the sustainable career satisfaction of employees in the handling sector. This research will make an important contribution to the existing literature pertaining to flexible arrangements in the workplace, sustainable career satisfaction, job stress, and goal orientation, and will contribute to further theories in this field.
Highlights
The main purpose of this paper was to clarify the impact of workplace flexibility on the employees’ career satisfaction and the contribution of job stress and goal orientation to this relationship
The objective of the study was to reach conclusions which can help the management of the aviation sector, to improve the career satisfaction of the employees working in North Cyprus at its single airport
The main aim of this article is to understand the relationship between workplace flexibility and career satisfaction, as well as to recognize how this relationship is mediated by job stress and moderated by goal orientation
Summary
The main purpose of this paper was to clarify the impact of workplace flexibility on the employees’ career satisfaction and the contribution of job stress and goal orientation to this relationship. Employees require a sustainable environment to reduce their work-stress in order to increase career satisfaction. Employees have struggled to find useful tools for workplace flexibility provided by their employees. In this field of research, career satisfaction has been debated for numerous years. Park [2] argues that the career environment is changing, and is mostly focused on employees’ liability and the personal behaviors of career growth, subjective sustainable satisfaction of an employee’s career within the workplace converts it into a permanent rule in order to have successful career. Sustainable satisfaction of the career should be discussed based on the employee’s career perspective and workplace
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