A profession but not a career? Work identity and career satisfaction in project management

McKevitt, David; Carbery, Ronan; Lyons, Aoife

doi:10.1016/j.ijproman.2017.07.010

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“…This is supported by recent findings that employability is positively related to career satisfaction. For example, studies have shown that career satisfaction is an outcome of both career adaptability (Rudolph et al, 2017) and a stronger sense of professional identity (McKevitt et al, 2017). The mediating effect of employability of the relationship between emotional self-efficacy and career satisfaction was examined, for example, by Dacre Pool and Qualter (2013), who found that employability mediated the relationship between emotional self-efficacy and career satisfaction.…”

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Get Noticed to Get Ahead: The Impact of Personal Branding on Career Success

2019

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There is a growing amount of attention being brought to personal branding as an effective career behavior, but little is known about the factors that predict personal branding behaviors and their outcomes. In two studies (N = 477) across two distinctly different cultural contexts (Western and Asian) based on a newly developed and validated scale of personal branding, we have examined the antecedents and outcomes of personal branding. The findings confirm that personal branding leads to greater career satisfaction, fully mediated by perceived employability. Career achievement aspiration was the strongest predictor of engaging in personal branding, while career feedback negatively related to personal branding intention and career self-efficacy positively related to personal branding but not to personal branding intention. These findings highlight the importance of personal branding as a contemporary career technique in promoting one's personal brand identity to achieve beneficial career outcomes.

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2019

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“…Among organizational sponsorship factors, the role of clear career paths in determining project managers’ career success has been significantly examined (Hölzle, 2010; McKevitt et al, 2017), highlighting that organizations need to pay attention to aligning career paths, as well as more general human resource management practices, to project managers’ peculiarities and needs; conversely, other variables such as career attitudes and employability have remained relatively underexplored. Such aspects, in particular the need for career self-reliance, are not exclusive to project managers but represent a feature of contemporary careers (Guest & Rodrigues, 2015).…”

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“…Hölzle (2010) recommended the alignment of career paths within organizations with the aim of promoting fairness and transparency, providing clear advancement opportunities. McKevitt et al (2017) argued that project managers’ dissatisfaction about their career opportunities is a widespread problem within project-based organizations. In fact, they may find themselves, after having managed several projects across different organizations, stuck in a rut with fewer or no opportunities because of organizational human resource inadequacy in offering clear career paths.…”

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“…This issue is intertwined with the fact that scholars have generally emphasized the inadequacy of organizations in adequately supporting and developing their project managers’ employability and career progress (McKevitt et al, 2017). It follows that, consistent with the protean and boundaryless concepts mentioned earlier, individuals need to take charge in the development of their own employability in order to ensure employment security across projects and organizations.…”

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Is the Project Manager’s Road to Success Paved Only with Clear Career Paths?

Presti

Elia²

2020

Project Management Journal

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This study examined the role of career attitudes and behaviors and employability enhancement factors in predicting project managers’ career success facets, over and above the availability of clear career paths. An online survey was completed by 552 Italian project managers. Clear career paths, employability culture, and protean career attitude positively predicted both objective and subjective (along with objective boundarylessness) career success. Dominance analysis showed the prevailing role of protean career, employability culture, and clear career paths. Results built a bridge between project management literature and career studies, particularly informing about the significance of the protean career. Organizational and individual implications for practices are discussed.

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“…In addition, Career Satisfaction can also influence employee decisions in determining their attitude to continue working in the organization or opting out. Career Satisfaction is the degree to which an employee expresses a positive orientation to his career (McKevitt, Carbery, & Lyons, 2017). Career Satisfaction refers to individual reactions to ongoing career experiences (Jiang, Wang, & Lin, 2016).…”

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The Effect Of Proactive Personality and Organizational Support For Career Development On Career Satisfaction

Novianti

Yogatama

2019

AJEB

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Employee Career satisfaction is an important element that needs to be managed by the organization. This study aims to find evidence of the important role of mediating Career Management Behavior in the role of Organizational Support for Career Development and Proactive Personalities towards Career satisfaction. This type of research is quantitative research. The population used in this study were all employees of PT Barito Putera who got 44 people. This study uses census techniques in sampling. While the analysis technique is used is partial least square (PLS) with the help of SmartPLS3 software. The results of this study indicate that Career Management Behavior can mediate the effect of Proactive personality and Organizational Support for Career Development on Career satisfaction.

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A profession but not a career? Work identity and career satisfaction in project management

Cited by 51 publications

References 71 publications

Get Noticed to Get Ahead: The Impact of Personal Branding on Career Success

Get Noticed to Get Ahead: The Impact of Personal Branding on Career Success

Is the Project Manager’s Road to Success Paved Only with Clear Career Paths?

The Effect Of Proactive Personality and Organizational Support For Career Development On Career Satisfaction

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