PREDICTORS OF OBJECTIVE AND SUBJECTIVE CAREER SUCCESS: A META‐ANALYSIS
verifiedrich profile · Personnel Psychology · 2005
NG, THOMAS W. H.; EBY, LILLIAN T.; SORENSEN, KELLY L.; FELDMAN, DANIEL C.
How this was studied
A meta-analytic synthesis — it pools many primary studies rather than running a single design, so there is no single-study diagram.
What this article reports
The findings we extracted from this work, normalized into Principia’s relationship form (X → Y). Each feeds the synthesized models below.
internal mobility → career satisfaction
career development → job satisfaction
career development → internal mobility
career sponsorship → internal mobility
Models this article informs
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career development predicts internal mobility
career development predicts job satisfaction
career sponsorship predicts internal mobility
internal mobility correlates career satisfaction
proactive personality predicts internal mobility
In the authors’ words
The article’s own abstract.
Using the contest‐ and sponsored‐mobility perspectives as theoretical guides, this meta‐analysis reviewed 4 categories of predictors of objective and subjective career success: human capital, organizational sponsorship, sociodemographic status, and stable individual differences. Salary level and promotion served as dependent measures of objective career success, and subjective career success was represented by career satisfaction. Results demonstrated that both objective and subjective career success were related to a wide range of predictors. As a group, human capital and sociodemographic predictors generally displayed stronger relationships with objective career success, and organizational sponsorship and stable individual differences were generally more strongly related to subjective career success. Gender and time (date of the study) moderated several of the relationships examined.
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supports “It has been shown to influence competency development in vocational school (Neuenschwander et al., 2007), selfesteem (Linnehan, 2003), and future career satisfaction (Ng et al., 2005).”
supports “Moreover, the findings support the prior research outcomes of the positive relationship between organizational support for career development and career satisfaction (Allen, Eby, Poteet, Lentz, & Lima, 2004; Barnett & Bradley, 2007; Guan et al., 2015; Guan et al., 2014; Lent & Brown, 2006; Ng et al., 2005; Orpen, 1994; Pazy, 1988; Price & Reichert, 2017) and the”
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