Effects Of Career Insecurity On Career Change Decision-making

The individual career has been changed as the development of the social environment, which requires individuals to be responsible for their career development and management. This kind of change increased the career uncertainty which made individuals be worried about their future in career development. This perception which we called "career insecurity" may influence individual career development and also the organizational performance.The primary purpose of this study is to develop the new concept of career insecurity and to develop and test a process model that examines the influence of career insecurity on the career change decision. Firstly,90 subjects were interviewed by open questionnaire and the career insecurity scale was gerneralized. Secondly,145 subjects were questioned by a pre-test. Finally,334 subjects were investigated by the revised questionnaire. The current study draws several conclusions as follows:(1) The concept of career insecurity is multidimensional which includes employability worries, career development worries, environmental worries and working pressure worries;(2)On one hand, employability worries is negative with leave intention while career development worries and working pressure worries is positive with leave intention. On the other hand career development worries is found to be positive with career transition intention; (3)Both leave intention and career transition intention are positive with job search behavior; (4)Individual career capital partially moderates the relationship between career insecurity and leave intention.There are several innovations in this study. Firstly, we took a new perspective on insecurity and proposed the new concept of career insecurity. Secondly, we proposed a process model which combines the career change intention and job search behavior. Thirdly, we adopted the concept of career capital to found the influence on career development.