Protean and boundaryless career attitudes: Relationships with subjective and objective career success

Volmer, Judith; Spurk, Daniel (2011). Protean and boundaryless career attitudes: Relationships with subjective and objective career success. Journal for Labour Market Research, 43(3), pp. 207-218. Springer 10.1007/s12651-010-0037-3

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The protean and boundaryless career attitudes have gained special attention during the past years. Aprotean career attitude implies that aperson strives towards adevelopmental progression and self-fulfillment; aboundaryless career attitude is characterized by ahigh physical and/or psychological mobility. The aim of the present paper is twofold: First, we want to empirically investigate the relationship between protean and boundaryless career attitudes and subjective (i.e., career satisfaction and success in comparison with colleagues) and objective (i.e., promotions and salary) career success. Second, we want to integrate research on protean and boundaryless career attitudes with research on predictors of career success. We analyze the career attitudes-career success relationship with asample of 116 professionals. Our findings suggest that components of the protean career attitude are rather more related with subjective career success and that components of the boundaryless career attitude are more related with objective career success. Conclusions regarding the relevance of career attitudes for career success are drawn.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Spurk, Daniel

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology

ISSN:

1614-3485

Publisher:

Springer

Language:

English

Submitter:

Daniel Michael Spurk

Date Deposited:

01 Apr 2015 17:27

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:44

Publisher DOI:

10.1007/s12651-010-0037-3

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.65847

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/65847

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