PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE ON CAREER ANCHORS

Year 2019, Volume: 19 Issue: 37, 80 - 98, 30.04.2019

Ali Şükrü Çetinkaya , Arif Damar

https://doi.org/10.30976/susead.461957

Cited By: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Globalization
and rapid evolution in technology have brought about intense competition among organizations
to meet their customers’ ever-changing demands. Attitudes and behaviors that
employees exhibit in a stressful competitive environment are extremely
important, it influences both their own career planning and the growth of their
organization. Dispensable for the enterprises, the moods of individuals
determine their resilience and directly affect the efficiency, effectiveness
and competitive power of the organization. This quantitative research
investigated the effects of psychological resilience on the career plans of
employees in organizations. Data were collected from 359 randomly selected employees
of private security service providing companies and analyzed by using the
Structural Equation Modeling technique. It was determined that there was a
significant and positive relationship between psychological resilience and
career anchors. Results revealed that employees’ family, social environment,
friendship, self-confidence and future perception are very influential on their
own career anchors.

Keywords: psychological
resilience, career anchors, private security, service sector

Jel Code: M12

Keywords

psychological resilience, career anchors, private security, service sector

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