What is Happiness?: Career Development and Reducing Barriers

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 1063 - 1079, 29.09.2023

Emine Kambur

Abstract

İş dünyasındaki sürekli rekabet ve değişim ortamına ayak uydurarak başarıya ulaşmak isteyen kurumlar için nitelikli çalışana sahip olmak önemlidir. Nitelikli çalışanların kazanılmasında ve organizasyonda sürekliliğin sağlanmasında kariyer gelişim süreci ve çalışanların mutlu edilmesi önemlidir. Çalışanlar kendi gelişimlerine katkı sağlayan ve kendilerini kısıtlanmış hissetmeyen organizasyonlarda kalmayı tercih ederler. Bu çalışmada beyaz yakalı çalışanların algıladıkları kariyer engeli ile kariyer gelişimi arasındaki ilişkide mutluluk düzeylerinin aracılık rolü incelenmiştir. Yapılan çalışma İstanbul’da finans, üretim ve hizmet sektörlerinde çalışan 450 katılımcı ile gerçekleştirilmiştir. Anketler 650 katılımcıya ulaştırılmıştır. Geri dönüş oranı %69’dur. IBM SPSS Process-Macro ile yapılan analizler sonucunda algılanan kariyer engelinin kariyer gelişimi ile mutluluk düzeyinin azaltılmasında etkisinin olduğu, mutluluğun bu ilişkide aracılık rolü oynadığı tespit edilmiştir.

Keywords

Beyaz Yakalı Çalışan, Algılanan Kariyer Engeli, Kariyer Gelişimi, Mutluluk

What is Happiness?: Career Development and Reducing Barriers

Abstract

It is important to have qualified employees for institutions that want to achieve success by keeping up with the environment of constant competition and change in the business world. Career development process and making employees feel happy are important in gaining qualified employees and ensuring their continuity in the organization. Employees prefer to stay in organizations that contribute to their own development and do not feel restricted. In this study, the mediating role of happiness levels in the relationship between career barrier perceived by white-collar employees and career development was examined. This study was carried out with 450 participants working in the finance, production and service sectors in Istanbul. The response rate to the surveys is 69% because the questionnaires were delivered to 650 participants. As a result of the analyzes made with IBM SPSS Process-Macro, it has been determined that the perceived career barrier has an effect on reducing the level of career development and happiness, and happiness has a mediating role in this relationship.

Keywords

White Collar Worker, Perceived Career Barrier, Career Development, Happiness

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