The Circumplex Model for Structuring Career Anchors of the IT/IS Personnel

Abstract

A quantitative study involving Mainland China (the PRC), Taiwan, India, the UAE, and the US, five areas with 852 responses of IT/IS personnel data towards building a more suitable Circumplex Career Anchor Model for IT/IS personnel, and to test a research model of a reorganized (quadrant) anchors. The bureaucratic, protean, careerist, and the social four quadrant anchors, have a significantly positive effect on career satisfaction of the IT/IS personnel. The bureaucratic, protean, and social three quadrant anchors have a significantly positive effect on job satisfaction of the IT/IS personnel, but not on the careerist quadrant anchor. Thus, the result of this study not only provided a reorganized (quadrant) anchors framework for suitable IT/IS personnel, but also combined job satisfaction, career satisfaction, and turnover intention to extend the Circumplex career anchor model to be a more complete research model.

How Does IT Influence Chinese IS/IT Users' Job Burnout?

“…Organizations have gained abundant advantages in the efficiency of their productivity and the effectiveness of their workers through the implementation of IT (Galluch et al, 2015). Due to the speedy development of the Internet, how to develop a robust IS to support the globalization of enterprises was the critical issue from the 2008 financial crisis to the COVID-19 epidemics beginning from 2020 (Chang & Wu, 2022). For this reason, usage of IS/IT to perform work is a necessary ability for most employees.…”