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A Partial Test of a Career‐Based Theory of Job Involvement Among Technical Professionals *
Author(s) -
Aryee Samuel
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841119202900304
Subject(s) - variance (accounting) , psychology , job analysis , test (biology) , job design , job attitude , job performance , job characteristic theory , personality , personnel psychology , applied psychology , social psychology , job satisfaction , management , business , economics , accounting , paleontology , biology
Despite the growing importance of careers and its probable influence on work attitudes, only McKelvey and Sekaran (1977) have proposed a career‐based theory of job involvement. If their career‐based theory of job involvement is to offer practical suggestions on how to improve job involvement, its generalisability will need to be established Data obtained from a sample of technical professionals (engineers, N=210) employed in the electronics industry in Singapore were used to test McKelvey and Sekaran's career‐based theory of job involvement. The theory posits job involvement as an outcome of the fit between career, personality, job and organisational characteristics. Our findings are supportive of the theory. First and second‐order regression analyses improved the amount of variance in job involvement explained In addition, the analyses indicated each subgroup to become job involved under a different configuration of variables. Implications of the findings and directions for future studies are discussed