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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Sanya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1932-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICIII.2012.6339819