A longitudinal study of the relationship between career management and organizational commitment among graduates in the first ten years of work

Sturges, J. and Guest, D. and Conway, N. and Mackenzie-Davey, Kate (2002) A longitudinal study of the relationship between career management and organizational commitment among graduates in the first ten years of work. Journal of Organizational Behavior 23 (6), pp. 731-748. ISSN 0894-3796.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/job.164

Abstract

This paper reports the findings of a two‐wave longitudinal study investigating relationships between organizational and individual career management activities and organizational commitment in the early years of graduate careers. Several hypotheses are tested and receive mixed support. High organizational commitment predicts the practice of career management activities by graduates to further their career within the organization while low commitment is closely associated with behaviour aimed at furthering the career outside the organization. Graduates who manage their own careers also receive more career management help from their employer. This suggests that there may be the potential for employers to create a ‘virtuous circle’ of career management in which individual and organizational activities complement each other.

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Item Type:	Article
School:	Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Depositing User:	Sarah Hall
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2021 16:55
Last Modified:	02 Aug 2023 18:07
URI:	https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/42659

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