Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers

Engineers are very driven to go up the career tree, and they aim for psychological achievement. Nevertheless, the struggle between fulfilling the company’s work demands and having their ambitions and expectations affected their well-being. In Malaysia, engineers are reported as one of the groups of...

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Main Author: Norizan Baba Rahim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/1/53793-187518-1-PB.pdf
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description Engineers are very driven to go up the career tree, and they aim for psychological achievement. Nevertheless, the struggle between fulfilling the company’s work demands and having their ambitions and expectations affected their well-being. In Malaysia, engineers are reported as one of the groups of unhappy employees. Consequently, this research examines the impact of proactive career management behaviours (PCMB) on the personal well-being of Malaysian engineers. The current research involved 387 registered professional engineers from a variety of fields and businesses. The hypotheses were tested via a path analysis using PLS. The findings indicated a positive effect of PCMB on individual well-being. Employers and industries may use the results to incentivise their unlicensed engineers to enrol as graduates and pursue careers as professional engineers. For that reason, people will see their work as significant, thus increasing their work satisfaction.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:195462022-09-01T07:36:01Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/ Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers Norizan Baba Rahim, Engineers are very driven to go up the career tree, and they aim for psychological achievement. Nevertheless, the struggle between fulfilling the company’s work demands and having their ambitions and expectations affected their well-being. In Malaysia, engineers are reported as one of the groups of unhappy employees. Consequently, this research examines the impact of proactive career management behaviours (PCMB) on the personal well-being of Malaysian engineers. The current research involved 387 registered professional engineers from a variety of fields and businesses. The hypotheses were tested via a path analysis using PLS. The findings indicated a positive effect of PCMB on individual well-being. Employers and industries may use the results to incentivise their unlicensed engineers to enrol as graduates and pursue careers as professional engineers. For that reason, people will see their work as significant, thus increasing their work satisfaction. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/1/53793-187518-1-PB.pdf Norizan Baba Rahim, (2022) Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers. Jurnal Pengurusan, 64 . pp. 1-14. ISSN 0127-2713 https://ejournal.ukm.my/pengurusan/issue/view/1530
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Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title_full Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title_fullStr Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title_full_unstemmed Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title_short Do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? An empirical study among professional engineers
title_sort do proactive career behaviours enhance individual well-being? an empirical study among professional engineers
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/19546/1/53793-187518-1-PB.pdf