Organizational Career Growth Research Articles

Development and initial validation of the Career Wisdom Scale: A resource in handling uncertainty in contemporary career development.

Wisdom is often recognized as a great resource in resolving complex problems, including challenges in one's career. However, current conversations on handling ambiguity in career development are disconnected from the wisdom literature, and a psychometrically sound measure of career wisdom is lacking. This article presents two studies that aimed to develop such a tool and evaluate its psychometric performance. Study 1 utilized a sample of workers (n = 349) from the United States to create and explore the factor structure of a measure called the Career Wisdom Scale. In Study 2, a sample of U.S. workers (n = 387) was tracked over 8 months to validate the Career Wisdom Scale by assessing its structural, convergent, predictive, and incremental validities. The results supported the psychometric soundness of the newly developed Career Wisdom Scale. Structurally, the results revealed a three-factor structure of career wisdom, which encompasses embracing ignorance, embracing intuition, and embracing vulnerability. Furthermore, the results indicated that career wisdom predicted various outcomes, including career satisfaction, life satisfaction, organizational career growth, psychological well-being, career adaptability, and work-life balance over and beyond personality traits and career decision anxiety. In conclusion, the present studies offer a valuable measure of career wisdom for both future research and practical application. Additionally, it underscores the importance of career wisdom in effectively managing career challenges that may lack clear solutions. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Protean career orientation: relationship to turnover intentions and moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth

PurposeThis paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.Design/methodology/approachThis briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.FindingsResearchers from China found that the relationship of “protean career orientation” (PCO) to turnover intentions was negative when current organizational career growth (OCG) was high, and it was positive when OCG was low. They also established that future career growth prospects weakened the link between PCO and turnover intentions.Originality/valueThe briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect

PurposeTargeting at the inconsistent relationship between protean career orientation and turnover intentions, this study aims to uncover when and why such inconsistency occurs. It emphasized the mediating role of organizational identification and moderating effects of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a three-wave time-lagged study over seven months, with a sample of 1,012 participants from various occupations.FindingsThe relationship of protean career orientation to turnover intentions via organizational identification was negative when current organizational career growth was high, and it was positive when current growth was low. Future organizational career growth prospect weakened organizational identification–turnover intentions relationship. Those two moderators jointly influenced the indirect relationship. For employees low in both states, the positive indirect relationship was the most significant.Originality/valueBy integrating social identity theory and social cognitive theory, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of protean career orientation–turnover intentions relationship. It also enriches studies on protean career orientation and organizational identification–turnover intentions relationship.

Factors influencing career sustainability in Saudi Arabian banks: A PLS-SEM analysis

This research delves into the correlation between organizational career growth and its impact on career sustainability among employees in the Saudi Arabian banking sector. It also explores the mediating influence of task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. Utilizing self-reported online questionnaires, data was collected from employees in Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, working in both private and public banks. Approximately 255 surveys were gathered, and thorough scrutiny of the data was conducted to identify any instances of common bias, duplication, or missing values. Following this data cleaning process, a sample size of 200 was retained for subsequent analysis. The survey, conducted over a month from December 2022 to January 2023, targeted four key factors: organizational career growth (OCG), organizational citizenship behavior, task performance, and career sustainability. The study utilized partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and path analysis, a combination that allows observed variables to represent latent variables while elucidating causal relationships between them. The findings showed that organizational career growth has a positive and significant influence on organizational citizenship behavior, task performance, and career sustainability. The SRMR value of 0.078 indicates a good fit between the observed data and the model; while the normed fit index (NFI) score of 0.957 shows that the model fits the data well. In addition, the study utilized the blindfolding technique to evaluate the model’s predictive validity. The results show that organizational career growth exerts a moderate effect on both task performance (Q2 = 0.218, Q2 = medium effect) and career sustainability (Q2 = 0.281, Q2 = medium effect) and has a limited impact on organizational citizenship behavior (Q2 = 0.136, Q2 = small effect). Expanded career opportunities within the organization led to better task performance and organizational citizenship behavior, indirectly boosting employees’ career sustainability in banking sector. Detailed managerial insights are also provided.

Protean career orientation, supervisor perceptions and organizational career growth: a moderated mediation model

Protean career orientation, supervisor perceptions and organizational career growth: a moderated mediation model

Organizational career growth and high-performance work systems: The roles of job crafting and organizational innovation climate

This study focused on the relationship of employees' career growth with high-performance work systems (HPWS), how and the conditions under which HPWS enhance organizational career growth. It considered job crafting as part of the mechanism, the idea being that employees actively exploit the resources provided and demands imposed by HPWS to craft their jobs. Using a multi-level, three-wave time-lagged design with 663 employees and 67 human resource managers from 67 companies, we found that (a) organization-level HPWS were positively related to individual employees' career growth; (b) task and relational job crafting mediated the relationship; (c) the organizational innovation climate moderated the relationship between organization-level HPWS and job crafting; and (d) the moderating effect had an impact on employees' career growth through job crafting. The implications of the study for the advancement of knowledge and practice are discussed.

Professional Training of Employees in Media Organizations in Serbia and Its Implications on Career Development

This paper examines the existence of the need and willingness of media companies in Serbia to organize professional training for their employees, with the aim of improving their knowledge and skills and for the sake of their career growth, analyzed in the context of business sustainability, as well as the sustainability of human resources in a very competitive media industry. The main purpose of the paper is to determine the relationship between professional training for media professionals and their career growth. It looks into the subjective assessment of the need for training, the subjective assessment of the usefulness of training, and organizational support related to training and development in order for media professionals to achieve career growth. A correlation study was conducted on a sample of 150 media professionals using three scales of a job training and job satisfaction survey questionnaire to determine the subjective assessment of the need for professional training, the subjective assessment of the usefulness of professional training and organizational support to training, while a modified organizational career growth scales questionnaire was used to determine career growth. Research results confirmed that employees believe that additional training has an impact on the development of their career, as well as that attending additional training has a positive effect on their career growth. This paper provides useful guidelines for company management regarding professional training and its implications on career growth, theoretical and practical implications, as well as suggestions for future research.

Twenty-five years of career growth literature: a review and research agenda

PurposeThe dynamic career scenario and the significant change from traditionally placing careers in employers’ hands to self-managing one’s careers have sparked profound scholarly interest in career growth. This paper aims to analyze quadricentennial literature on career growth published during the years 1995 through 2020. In this paper, through bibliometric and integrative reviews, the authors address the two critical questions, “what do we know?” and “where should we go?” While the bibliometric review examines the evolution and trends, the integrative review examines the dynamics of conceptual frameworks, primary research foci, research context and quality in research designs and methods.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopted preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines to identify the papers for this review. The data set comprised 102 papers and 60 papers for bibliometric and integrative review, respectively. “CiteSpace” is used for the bibliometric analysis and the template designed by the authors is used for the integrative review.FindingsThe results present conceptual clarification for career growth and its related constructs. The bibliometric analysis findings highlight the extensive research on career growth followed by organizational career growth and career growth opportunities. The findings also show that seven of the top 10 productive authors are from China. This study also identifies theoretical, conceptual and methodological opportunities and provides recommendations intended to further research engagements across the different aspects of career growth.Originality/valueTo the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to introduce bibliometric analysis into career growth literature. This research adopts an integrative review approach and offers insights into career growth literature.

Organizational career growth: the mediating role of career management practices

Organizational career growth: the mediating role of career management practices

Organizational Career Growth: Literature Review and Future Agenda

Organizational Career Growth (OCG) is an innovative human resource construct which strengthens the employer-employee relations. Studies had conversed the importance of the role of the organization in their employees constant development as it is critical to both the effective growth of organization and its employees. The literatures presented discuss on the development and concept of OCG. Sources for each studied variable were collected and evaluated from literature. To that effect, key words and phrases were entered in specific online databases. Moreover, sources that were found relevant to this study were summarized, analyzed, and evaluated in literature mapping. Finally, a synthesis was done to identify the research gap. The references used in this section were chosen based on selected criteria. The first criterion was recency. Most selected studies were from 2009 to 2020 time bracket. Several earlier seminal and relevant research studies on each variable were also integrated in the study. These studies were selected to provide historical and theoretical development of the constructs. The second criterion was quality. All were peer reviewed publications. The third criterion was accessibility. All selected articles were chosen based on their availability. This paper is organized into several sections. Each section and its related subsections examines histories, definitions, theories, concepts, and researches relevant to understanding the construct under scrutiny. This closes with research gap and future research agenda.

Generation Z and organizational citizenship behavior of sharia banking

Purpose: The goal of this study is to test and examine the effect of organizational support on employee engagement and OCB; the impact of career development on employee engagement and OCB; as well as the impact of employee engagement on OCB. The survey was carried out on Indonesia's 200 Sharia Banking Generation Z employees. Design/methodology/approach: All Generation Z employees working as the population in Islamic banking companies in Indonesia use the questionnaire and interviews to collect data. The purposeful sampling was used in this study where the researcher understood that it was possible to gather the appropriate information from a particular population that was able to provide the information requested and that the predetermined criteria had been fulfilled. Since the population is too large, this method was chosen. 200 samples consist of the sample number. In this analysis, SEM is the method used to process information (Structural Equation Model) Findings: The organizational support variable is shown to be capable of influencing employee engagement, which means that the better organizational support offered by the company would also increase the greater engagement of Generation Z employees in Sharia banking. Variables in work growth can affect employee engagement, meaning that the greater company's career development, the greater employee's engagement. Organizational support has been shown to affect OCB, which shows that the better organizational support of the corporation, the greater organizational citizenship behavior of the employee. It is seen that career development is capable of impacting OCB, which means that the greater employee's additional position operation will bring a stronger implementation of career development. The employee engagement variable has also proven to be able to influence OCB, which means that the greater employee engagement, the greater additional role of Generation Z employees in Islamic banking. Research limitations/implications: Limitations in this study include the nature of open-ended questions which are less understood by respondents, so that many respondents responded with inappropriate answers and some others were not filled in causing the lack of information obtained about the actual situation in current Islamic banking. With this limitation, it is hoped that further scientific research will be considered and made to obtain better research results. Practical implications: The organization would concentrate more on progress in the career development system, taking into account, among other considerations, other variables. Organizations could try to shape their identities as responsible corporate or global citizens by taking a leadership position in sustainable business practices and demonstrating to millennials that OCB is an important way to meet their service needs. The millennial workers would welcome these events, which would encourage them to take on additional duties by assisting other colleagues. Such efforts will be necessary in the twenty-first century to build an effective workforce. Originality/value: It has been shown that employee engagement as an intervening variable can mediate the impact on organizational citizenship behavior between organizational support and career growth, although calculations show that the direct effect of independent variables (organizational support and career development) on OCB is greater than that through employee engagement variable (indirect influence).

A Meta-Analysis of the Antecedents of Career Commitment

Career commitment refers to one’s emotional attachment to one’s career rather than to one’s current working organization. While career commitment has been studied for decades as an important construct in applied psychology research, robust conclusions about its antecedents have not been drawn by empirical research. To address this issue, this research presents the results of a meta-analytic review of the antecedents of career commitment based on data from 156 individual studies (N = 58,651) conducted between 1980 and 2019. A total of 52 latent antecedents were captured and categorized into five different groups, and the strength, direction and heterogeneity of the relations between career commitment and its antecedents were meta-analytically investigated. Our findings revealed that while individual attributes (e.g. age) alone were weak predictors of career commitment, psychological (e.g. job satisfaction) and organizational factors (e.g. organizational career growth) exhibited medium effect sizes. In addition, among job-related factors, autonomy demonstrated a relatively strong influence on career commitment. The implications are elucidated for researchers and practitioners in the light of these key findings.

The Effects of Abusive Supervision and Psychological Symptoms on Organizational Career Growth:A Moderated Mediation Model of Perceived Organizational Support

The Effects of Abusive Supervision and Psychological Symptoms on Organizational Career Growth:A Moderated Mediation Model of Perceived Organizational Support

Proactive Personality and Organizational Career Growth: When and Why Proactive Individuals Stand Out

Integrating person-environment fit theory and job characteristics theory, we develop a theoretical model to investigate when and how proactive employees are more likely to stand out in their current organizations. We propose that the relationship between proactive personality and organizational career growth is mediated by P-O fit and P-J fit and moderated by job characteristics. Results based on data collected in three waves from a sample of 175 employees nested within 45 groups from 5 organizations fully supported our assumptions. Our findings suggest that proactive individuals are more likely to fit into their organizations and job positions, particularly when the jobs are embedded with a high level of core job characteristics such as variety, autonomy, and feedback. Implications for career development and management theory are discussed.

Communication Climate as Predictor of Perceived Corporate Governance and Organizational Success

Communication Climate as Predictor of Perceived Corporate Governance and Organizational Success

Job characteristics as drivers of occupational commitment: the mediating mechanisms

This paper investigated the influence of job characteristics on occupational commitment through the mediating roles of perceived work meaningfulness and organizational career growth, and increased the knowledge about the development of occupational commitment from its core bases. Cross-sectional (N1 = 402) and three-wave longitudinal (N2 = 172) designs were used to collect data from various organizations located in mainland China. Structural equation modeling methodology and PROCESS macro were utilized in data analyses. Results indicated a positive relationship between job characteristics and occupational commitment, and this relationship was mediated by perceived work meaningfulness and organizational career growth. The study offers strategies for practitioners to cultivate employees’ occupational commitment within organizations by designing motivational jobs.

Personality and Organizational Career Growth: The Moderating Roles of Innovation Climate and Innovation Climate Strength

Drawing on trait activation theory, the present study answered the question about who achieves better career development in innovative organizations in the Chinese context. We examined the relationships of Big Five personality traits on organizational career growth while considering the cross-level moderating effects of innovation climate and innovation climate strength. More specifically, we argued that conscientiousness and openness to experience would be more strongly related to organizational career growth at the higher level of innovation climate, and the linkages between all Big Five personality traits and career growth are stronger when innovation climate strength is weaker. Data from 2,415 employees randomly selected from 280 institutions in China support most of the hypotheses. We discussed the theoretical and practical implications as well as the limitations and suggestions for future studies.

Testing a Moderated Mediation Model of Turnover Intentions With Chinese Employees

This study explores the role of organizational career growth on employees’ organizational identification and turnover intentions in the contemporary career era. We compare the impact of organizational career growth and perceived external prestige of organization on employees’ organizational identification and turnover intentions and probe whether perceived alternative job opportunities moderate the relations between perceived external prestige–organizational identification and organizational career growth–organizational identification. Using a sample of 644 Chinese employees, findings indicated perceived external prestige and organizational career growth negatively influenced turnover intentions via organizational identification. Perceived alternative job opportunities buffered the relation between perceived external prestige and organizational identification but not the relation between organizational career growth and organizational identification. Finally, organizational career growth contributed more to organizational identification and turnover intentions than perceived external prestige. Our results suggest future research should consider the role of individual career states in improving employees’ organizational identification and retaining them within an organization.

Organizational career growth and career commitment: Moderated mediation model of work engagement and role modeling

This study aimed to expand our understanding of the role of organizational career growth in relation to career commitment, as mediated by work engagement. In total, 330 respondents recruited from a large hotel and resort company in South Korea were included in the analysis. Structural equation modeling and the PROCESS macro for SPSS were used to analyze the proposed hypotheses. The results revealed that the intrinsic function of organizational career growth was positively associated with work engagement. Furthermore, work engagement mediated the relationship between the intrinsic function of organizational career growth and career commitment. Moreover, employees’ perception of leaders as role models moderated the relationship between work engagement and career commitment. In particular, the mediating role of work engagement in the relationship between the intrinsic function of organizational career growth and career commitment was stronger when employees perceived their leaders as role models. This paper also discusses the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.

Seeking Challenges, Individual Adaptability and Career Growth in the Relationship between Workload and Contextual Performance: A Two-Wave Study

Based on the theoretical approach of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development and on the theoretical Job Demands-Resources model, this contribution aims to explore the mediating effect of seeking challenges on the relationship between workload and contextual performance and the moderating effects of individual adaptability and organizational career growth in this process. The study involved a convenience sample from different occupational sectors. Data from 178 employees were collected with a self-report questionnaire administered at times T1 and T2 (six months later) and then analyzed through conditional process analysis. Challenging job demands (T1) fully mediated the relationship between workload (T1) and contextual performance (T2); furthermore, individual adaptability (T1) moderated the relationship between workload (T1) and challenging job demands (T1), and organizational career growth (T2) moderated the relationship between challenging job demands (T1) and contextual performance (T2). The results imply that seeking challenges can represent an effective approach to promote sustainable development through improvement of performance at work, maintaining its sustainability over time. The present study is innovative because in the new framework of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development is able to link workload, seeking challenges, career growth and performance in a two-wave study that not only has theoretical implications for organizations but also operative and practical spillovers.