Assessing the Level of Individual Well-Being among Engineers:Career Goal Development as a Predictor

Engineers are fast-track individuals who have special knowledge and expertise.They have great expectations and ambitions for their career (Malan, 2004).Engineers are also known to be energetic in climbing their career ladder andstrive for their psychological success. However, the conflict between havingtheir own goals and expectation with advancement opportunities, workautonomy and work demand structured by the organization have influenced thewell-being of the engineers. As a result, Malaysian statistics of Human ResourceDepartment indicated that the performance of engineers has shown a drop . Thisscenario would become worse if less attention is given to research on theengineer’s individual well-being. Thus, it is a timely to conduct study inaccessing the level of individual well-being among Malaysian engineers, withcareer goal development as the predictor. A total of 387 registered professionalengineers participated in this study. The hypotheses were investigated through acorrelation and path analysis using PLS. The results provide useful informationon the positive influence of protean career orientation on psychological wellbeing.The results further had shown a positive influence of career goaldevelopment on individual well-being. The implications of these findings forunderstanding the process through of career attitude that affects individuals’individual well-being are discussed.