• DocumentCode
    1959680
  • Title

    Investigating the relationship between MBA education and professional managers´ career satisfaction—Mediating function of psychological capital

  • Author

    Guo, Liang ; Xiyuan, Li ; Qin, Chen

  • Author_Institution
    Econ. & Manage. Sch., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    20-21 Oct. 2012
  • Firstpage
    227
  • Lastpage
    231
  • Abstract
    Career satisfaction is the subjective criteria for judging the professional managers´ success. MBA education´s goal is to cultivate professional managers for enterprises. This paper uses empirical methods to discuss MBA education´ effect on professional managers´ career satisfaction, and takes psychological capital as a mediating variable to investigate the mechanism between MBA education and professional manager´s career satisfaction. The results show that MBA education has a significant influence on professional managers´ career satisfaction, and psychological capital partly mediates the relationship between MBA education and professional managers´ satisfaction. Conclusions suggest that MBA education should pay attention to psychological capital´s training and promoting, which can promote the professional managers´ career satisfaction.
  • Keywords
    further education; industrial training; management education; psychology; MBA education; enterprise professional managers; professional manager career satisfaction; professional manager success; psychological capital mediating function; psychological capital training; Barium; Education; Engineering profession; Integrated circuits; Lead; Psychology; MBA education; career satisfaction; psychological capital;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2012 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Sanya
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1932-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIII.2012.6339819
  • Filename
    6339819