SUSTAINABLE CAREERS IN TÜRKİYE: A CONSERVATION OF RESOURCE PERSPECTIVE

Year 2023, Volume: 14 Issue: 2, 533 - 554, 30.12.2023

Volkan Aşkun

https://doi.org/10.54688/ayd.1267791

Abstract

Rapid technological developments, socio-economic changes, globalization, migration, pandemics and increasingly dynamic work environments continue to present unique challenges to individuals in terms of sustainable careers. As a result of these developments, the issue of what individuals, organizations and governments should pay attention to in order for careers to transform and adapt is gaining value day by day. In this sense, the study aims to reveal the causal relationship of the conditions that constitute sustainable careers through qualitative comparative analysis using the World Values Survey (WVS) data of 2,287 participants. In this direction, seven different asymmetric configurations that constitute sustainable careers were obtained by utilizing social resources such as family and friendship and individual resources such as leisure time, happiness, health, locus of control and well-being from the perspective of resource conservation theory. As a result of these configurations, it was determined that it is not possible for individuals to create sustainable careers under the same conditions. It is concluded that participants in different configurations need to prevent the loss of contextual and individual resources in the name of sustainable careers, compensate for the loss of resources or acquire new similar resources for their own benefit.

Keywords

Sustainable Career, Conservation of Resource Theory, Well-being, Satisfaction, Happiness.

TÜRKİYE’DE SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİR KARİYER: KAYNAKLARIN KORUNMASI PERSPEKTİFİ

Abstract

Hızlı teknolojik gelişmeler, sosyoekonomik değişimler, küreselleşme, göçler, salgınlar ve giderek daha dinamik hale gelen çalışma ortamları, sürdürülebilir kariyer konusunda bireylere benzersiz zorluklar sunmaya devam etmektedir. Bu gelişmeler sonucunda kariyerlerin dönüşmesi ve uyum sağlaması adına bireylerin, örgütlerin ve devletlerin nelere önem vermesi gerektiği konusu her geçen gün değer kazanmaktadır. Bu anlamda çalışmada, 2.287 katılımcının yer aldığı Dünya Değerler Anketi (WVS) verilerinden yararlanarak nitel karşılaştırmalı analiz yöntemiyle sürdürülebilir kariyeri oluşturan koşulların nedensel ilişkisinin ortaya konulması amaçlanmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda kaynakların korunması teorisi perspektifinden aile ve arkadaşlık gibi sosyal kaynaklar ile boş zaman, mutluluk, sağlık, kontrol odağı ve esenlik gibi bireysel kaynaklardan yararlanarak sürdürülebilir kariyeri oluşturan asimetrik yedi farklı konfigürasyonlar elde edilmiştir. Bu konfigürasyonlar sonucunda bireylerin sürdürülebilir bir kariyerleri aynı koşullarda oluşturmasının olası olmadığı saptanmıştır. Farklı konfigürasyonlarda yer alan katılımcıların sürdürülebilir kariyerleri adına bağlamsal ve bireysel kaynakların kaybını önlemek, kaynak kaybı yaşadıysa telafi etmek veya kendi çıkarları için yeni benzer kaynaklar elde etmesi gerektiği sonucuna varılmaktadır.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilir Kariyer, Kaynakların Korunması Teorisi, Esenlik, Tatmin, Mutluluk

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