Abstract
This paper examines how employees' career aspirations benefit organizations, i.e., contribute to strengthening organizational capabilities and connections, by means of two aspects of contemporary work: proactive and relational. Data were collected from alumni of a public university in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in two waves with a 1-year time lag. The results showed that employees with career aspirations strengthen: (a) organizational capabilities; and (b) organizational connections through their instrumental and psychosocial relationships. Interestingly, although employees' career aspirations were positively associated with taking charge, we did not find that taking charge mediates the relationship between career aspirations and employees' individual contributions to organizational capabilities. This study is the first to examine how individual career aspirations benefit organizations, and it discusses the results in light of their novel contributions to theory and practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2150 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-11 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | November |
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| Publication status | Published - 9 Nov 2018 |
Funding
This study is part of the Ph.D. thesis of SB, directed by SK and PJ in the Department of Management and Organisation at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the sNetherlands This study was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) under project number 017.006.076
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek |
Keywords
- Career aspirations
- Networking
- Organizational core competencies
- Proactive behavior
- Taking charge