Title :
Study on the Correlation between Employability and Career Success of Knowledge Workers - Based on the Boundaryless Careers
Author :
Guo, Wen-Chen ; Niu, Shuang ; Yang, Ning
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Manage., Dalian Univ. of Technol., Dalian, China
Abstract :
In view of complex and volatile career situation in boundaryless careers, this study explored the correlations between employability and career success of knowledge workers with the survey. This study tested the employability scale based on 124 samples from 10 foreign-owned or private-owned enterprises in Dalian and Shanghai. Then 184 knowledge workers from several enterprises were invited to join the final survey, and 184 questionnaires were taken hierarchical multiple regression. The result indicated that the relationships between employability and career success were positive, and employability was a power predict of career success beyond demographics variables.
Keywords :
employment; human resource management; organisational aspects; personnel; Dalian; Shanghai; career success; employability; foreign-owned enterprises; hierarchical multiple regression; knowledge workers; organizational career management; private-owned enterprises; Contracts; Demography; Employment; Engineering profession; Instruments; Knowledge management; Power generation economics; Psychology; Technology management; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4638-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4639-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5302921