Impact On Career Satisfaction Of Mission Orientation

In recent years, with the arrival of the Era of boundaryless career, the traditional stable and predictable occupational pattern is nonexistent. Therefore, the employees experience more career transitions and have greater agency in career decisions, depending much less on organizational career arrangements. Given this background, some studies covered that career orientations are related to some positive organizational outcomes. As a result, many researchers and practitioners pay great attentions to this area, In this study, a career orientation is defined as a view toward work in which one expects work to be both purposeful and inherently meaningful. At present, however, the studies about influence of career orientations on organizational outcomes are limited and the studies on mechanism of this relationship are still in the infancy, which remain to be developed. The main contents were as follows:1. Exploring and testing the concepts and constructs of career orientations, career resilience and job resources.2. Examine the distribution of career orientations and career resilience on demographic(like gender, age, working year, position et al.) and organizational variables(occupations and property right).3. Testing the supposed models about the relationship among career orientations, career resilience, job resources and career satisfaction. Specifically, it included testing the mediating role of career resilience on the relationship between career orientations and career satisfaction, the moderating role of job resources on the relationship between career orientations and career resilience, and the moderating role of job resources on the whole relationship between career orientations and career satisfaction via career resilience.The410participants of this study were employees from several corporations in Nanjing. And the data were analyzed by SPSS17.0and AMOS18.0, with some analysis methods like item analysis, factor analysis, correlations, analysis of variance, hierarchical regression, path analysis and conditional indirect effect analysis. The main findings were as follows:1. Exploring and Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the construct of career orientations and career satisfaction consist of one factor. Besides, the career resilience had a second-order structure and it could be subdivided into three factors, including career flexibility, career achievement motivation and career initiative. Additionally, the structure of job resources consisted of autonomy, social supports, performance feedback and advancement opportunities.2. Some demographic and organizational variables had significant main effect and interaction effect on career orientations and career resilience.3. Career orientations, career resilience and career satisfaction were correlated pairwise, and career resilience had significant mediating effect on the relationship between career orientations and career satisfaction.4. Autonomy and social supports moderated the relationship between career orientations and career resilience. In addition, conditional indirect effect test showed that the mediating effect of career resilience on calling orientation-career satisfaction linkage was significant only among those employees who perceived higher level of autonomy and social supports.5. Based on the study result and practical experience, the theoretical and practical value together with the study limitation and future research direction were discussed.