The protean career orientation as predictor of career outcomes: Evaluation of incremental validity and mediation effects
By Anne Herrmann, A. Hirschi, Yehuda Baruch. 2015
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A protean career orientation is assumed to be beneficial for career development but researchers have only recently started to empirically evaluate the concept. Conducting two studies based on three independent samples of university students and working professionals in Germany, we address issues of concurrent validity, predictive incremental validity and mechanisms linking the protean orientation to career outcomes. The first study showed that in a sample of 104 German employees different measures of the protean career orientation all correlated highly, but not identically, to a range of work and career attitudes. Using bootstrapping analysis, a second study with a six-month prospective examination among 419 German university students and a cross-sectional analysis among 526 German employees showed that a protean career orientation predicts proactive career behaviors and career satisfaction beyond a proactive disposition and core self-evaluations, respectively. Moreover, the protean career orientation was a significant mediator of these two personality constructs on both career outcomes. Cumulatively, the studies enrich our understanding of how and when a protean career orientation is related to important career outcomes.
Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Protean Careers at Work: Self-Direction and Values Orientation in Psychological Success (2018, background): “Herrmann et al. (2015) found evidence of this relationship in their study of German students, whose core self-evaluations were related to their protean orientation.”
- Linking Protean Career Orientation with Career Optimism: Career Adaptability and Career Decision Self-Efficacy as Mediators (2020, background): “Previous research has shown that protean career orientation is related to several career-related outcomes including career planning, career goal development, vocational identity, and proactive career behavior (Briscoe et al., 2012; Direnzo et al., 2015; Herrmann et al., 2015; Rahim & Siti-Rohaida, 2”
- Contemporary career orientations and career self-management: A review and integration (2021, background): “For example, workers with a stronger a protean career orientation are more likely to engage in networking, career planning and exploration (De Vos & Soens, 2008; Herrmann et al., 2015), and workers with a boundaryless career orientation are more likely to seek variety in their work experiences, and ”