Factor Analysis Evaluation of Schein’s Career Orientations Inventory in Colombia

Cortés-Sánchez, Julián David; Hinestroza, Merlín Patricia Grueso

doi:10.3846/btp.2017.020

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“…In contrast, FA is a very widespread and noted technique within many other branches of science, e.g. social and psychological sciences and marketing research (Thurstone, 1947;Nawojczyk, 2002;Brown, 2006;Cortés Sánchez & Grueso Hinestroza, 2017;Chidambaram et al, 2013;Ludwikowska, 2021;Warter & Warter, 2017). The reason may be related to the lack of statistical awareness, laborious data collection, computational complexity, and problematic interpretation of abstractive factors.…”

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Application of factor analysis in company management – selected examples related to competitiveness and market success

Jurczak

2021

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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Factor analysis is a standard statistical technique for reducing data dimensionality, which is widely used in sociology, psychology, and demography. Also, financial and insurance institutions commonly use such a technique for marketing research. In recent years, factor analysis has been used, at the beginning rather diffidently, to analyse selected problems of business management, e.g. to troubleshoot consumer and company communication. There are some literature reports about the successful use of factor analysis in managing a company area. Nevertheless, the literature seems to lack examples with successful use of the method with a clear explanation of its rather difficult application in the field of competitiveness or potential company boost. The modest popularity of such a powerful technique in this particular field seems to be attributed mainly to the complexity of the method and its requirements concerning the data quantity. Besides, the factor analysis technique has great potential and can be used as an efficient tool to reduce the complexity of observed phenomenon or verify the accuracy of theoretical models. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to present a vast potential of factor analysis (both exploratory and confirmatory) applied to solve various problems in company management, especially related to competitiveness and market success. Two case studies covering the subject of business management are presented to illustrate the benefits of factor analysis application. The exploratory factor analysis is exemplified by the search of factors related to the commercial success of the company, while the confirmatory technique is illustrated by a case study of the intellectual capital of the company and its factors related to competitiveness. The paper also presents the essence of the factor analysis, types of analysis, subsequent procedures, purposes, and its specific features. Finally, the applicability of the factor analysis to solve management issues and possible gain in management are discussed.

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Application of factor analysis in company management – selected examples related to competitiveness and market success

Jurczak

2021

Engineering Management in Production and Services

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“…Also, organizations and occupational groups themselves are not expected to cause individuals to maintain or abandon predetermined anchors. In addition, many studies have indicated that career orientations could differ among race (Coetzee et al, 2007;Oosthuizen et al, 2014), gender (Igbaria et al, 1991, Kniveton, 2004Coetzee et al, 2007;Coetzee & Schreuder, 2008;Coetzee & de Villiers, 2010; Cortés-Sánchez & Grueso-Hinestroza, 2017), age (Kniveton, 2004;Coetzee & Schreuder, 2008;Oosthuizen et al, 2014), educational level (Coetzee & Schreuder, 2008;Cortés-Sánchez & Grueso-Hinestroza, 2017) and marital status (Coetzee & Schreuder, 2008).…”

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“…In this regard, it was found that congruence between person's career anchor and job has a positive impact on job satisfaction (Danziger & Valency, 2006;Steele, 2009;Igbaria et al, 1991), organizational commitment and can decrease turnover intensions (Igbaria et al, 1991;Hardin et al, 2001). It was also found that dominant career anchor of employees may differ in accordance with age, gender, race, marital status, educational level and occupation (Schein 1978;Coetzee et al, 2007;Coetzee & Schreuder, 2008;Steele, 2009;Cortés-Sánchez & Grueso-Hinestroza, 2017). This paper presents the results of the study conducted on the sample of secondary school teachers in order to find out which one of nine career anchors defined in the line with the Schein's conceptualization (1978), is dominant and how they differ in terms of demographic factors such as gender, age and work experience.…”

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Career Anchors of Secondary School Teachers

Milanović

2019

Economic Themes

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Career anchors represent the internal constellations of motives, needs and career goals of individuals. It is of great importance to identify person’s career anchor and according to it, to design career management practices. Furthermore, if there is congruence between career anchor and job related characteristics, many positive outcomes such as job satisfaction, organizational commitment, low turnover intentions, etc. may emerge. The aim of this paper is to identify which one of nine defined career anchors is dominant career anchor of secondary school teachers as public sector employees and how they differ in terms of demographic factors such as gender, age and work experience. In order to achieve this goal, empirical research was conducted using a sample of 44 secondary school teachers from one town. The descriptive statistic’s results indicated that the dominant career anchor of secondary school teachers is security – job tenure, followed by service and lifestyle career anchors. Non-parametric tests were applied for the assessment of statistically significant differences between demographic groups. Female teachers and teachers between 41 and 50 years expressed higher levels of importance of security – job tenure career anchor, but teachers with work experience lesser than 15 years showed higher levels of importance of security – geographic. The findings of this study add new contribution to the literature and career management practices in Serbia.

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Personality Traits in Millennial Career Choice

Barba

2020

Global Applications of Multigenerational Management and Leadership in the Transcultural Era

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The career choice includes factors such as personality, family, and social environment. This chapter analyzes the manner in which Millennial students choose a profession in International Business and Tourism at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico through the analysis of their personality traits. Using factor analysis and statistical independence, a Chi-square test with a sample of 419 students, the authors found that the factor structure that best fits the data was personal skills, attitudes, and academic skills. These factors provide characteristics of the type of entrepreneurial personality according to Holland's theory. The personality differences between these two professions are three: the “willingness to serve,” which is emphasized for the tourism profession instead of for the international business profession; “mathematical and language skills”; and “economic retribution” that have a greater weight for the business profession than for the tourism profession.

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Factor Analysis Evaluation of Schein’s Career Orientations Inventory in Colombia

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Application of factor analysis in company management – selected examples related to competitiveness and market success

Application of factor analysis in company management – selected examples related to competitiveness and market success

Career Anchors of Secondary School Teachers

Personality Traits in Millennial Career Choice

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