background and objectives: a career anchors consists of jobs that a person holds in order to achieve a professional goal. career anchors development management results in job satisfaction, professional commitment, and higher effectiveness. the purpose of this study was to determine different dimensions of career anchors among in the personnel of vice-chancellor offices of shiraz university of m...

Background and Objectives: A career anchors consists of jobs that a person holds in order to achieve a professional goal. Career anchors development management results in job satisfaction, professional commitment, and higher effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to determine different dimensions of career anchors among in the personnel of vice-chancellor offices of Shiraz University of M...

In today's dynamic and uncertain career context, values play an important role for career choice and lifelong career self-management. Values are desirable goals that are sought by individuals to satisfy their needs and are important for understanding career orientations in terms of protean and boundaryless career orientations and career anchors. However, how career orientations or career anchor...

Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I, for one, am relieved that we’re starting a new year. Last year was very challenging so many reasons all familiar with, not the least of which being how our work lives became completely upended. Many continue to struggle with challenges such as spillover effect, phenomenon when life spills over into family and vice versa, Zoom fatigue, or missing fa...

The current business environment has become clearly more international, marked by boundaryless careers, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and layoffs. With the ever-growing disappearance of the longterm employment contract, employees are considered as being responsible to manage their own development. The concept of career anchor was first introduced by Schein (1978) to describe the ass...

This study focuses on the career anchors of MIS professionals and adopts the well-established career theory, Schein’s Career Anchors, as the fundamental theory in this study. The present paper attempts to investigate the relationship between career anchors and leave intent of MIS professionals in Taiwan. The study adds the cultural construct, Chinese Relationalism, into its research model, in o...

Many researchers have argued that additional systematic analysis of the information technology (IT) workforce is necessary in order to more deeply understand organizational human behavior as it relates to career anchors or values and motivations that attract an individual to a particular career. For these reasons the purpose of this paper is to examine the career anchors of women in the America...