The Mediating Role of Psychological Empowerment in the Relationship of Career Anchor with Job Satisfaction

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 MA, Department of Applied Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran-

2 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Introduction
Achieving organizational goals, depends on the collaboration between all the organizational factors, among them human resources is the most important of all. incapability of human resources can cause other factors to work improperly which results in incapability of organizations in achieving goals (Askari et al., 2019). “Job career” defines as your first job to your last job. “Career anchor” is based on the notion that the balance between your personal career preferences and your job can results in higher job satisfaction, job commitment and job performance and without this balance there will be lower job satisfaction and job burnout. The aime of this research was to investigate the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between career anchor and job satisfaction.
 
Method
The population of this research include the employees of Zarin Jam Marina industrial organization in Tehran. From the point of view of the goal and data collecting, it is a practical and descriptive-survey study. 143 employees (by convenient sampling method) were selected and online and paper questionnaires were distributed to them. The questioners used in this article include Shein Career Anchors (1996), Spritzer psychological empowerment (1995), and researcher made questionnaire of job satisfaction (combination of Halkman and Oldham (1990) & Vennest (2005) questionnaires). Data analysis has been done with SmartPLS software and t parameter and with structural equation modeling.
 
Results
Using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM), the results showed significant relationship between career anchors and job satisfaction with the mediating role of psychological empowerment (p<0.01،β=0.202). It is a complete mediation by Baron and Kenny (1985) definition.
 
Discussion
The results showed that regarding the 8 career anchors of employees, through two empowering factors (Meaning & Affect), can increase employees’ job satisfaction which will result in more job performance and commitment and positive effects in organization.

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