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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PREDICTORS OF EXECUTIVE CAREER SUCCESS
Author(s) -
JUDGE TIMOTHY A.,
CABLE DANIEL M.,
BOUDREAU JOHN W.,
BRETZ ROBERT D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
personnel psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 6.076
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1744-6570
pISSN - 0031-5826
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1995.tb01767.x
Subject(s) - psychology , variance (accounting) , job satisfaction , human capital , social psychology , sample (material) , explained variation , prestige , applied psychology , statistics , accounting , philosophy , linguistics , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , economics , business , economic growth
This study examined the degree to which demographic, human capital, motivational, organizational, and industrylregion variables predicted executive career success. Career success was assumed to comprise objective (pay, ascendancy) and subjective (job satisfaction, career satisfaction) elements. Results obtained from a sample of 1,388 U.S. executives suggested that demographic, human capital, motivational, and organizational variables explained significant variance in objective career success and in career satisfaction. Particularly interesting were findings that educational level, quality, prestige, and degree type all predicted financial success. In contrast, only the motivational and organizational variables explained significant amounts of variance in job satisfaction. These findings suggest that the variables that lead to objective career success often are quite different from those that lead to subjectively defined success.