Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect
Career Development International
ISSN: 1362-0436
Article publication date: 25 January 2024
Issue publication date: 30 April 2024
Abstract
Purpose
Targeting at the inconsistent relationship between protean career orientation and turnover intentions, this study aims to uncover when and why such inconsistency occurs. It emphasized the mediating role of organizational identification and moderating effects of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conducted a three-wave time-lagged study over seven months, with a sample of 1,012 participants from various occupations.
Findings
The relationship of protean career orientation to turnover intentions via organizational identification was negative when current organizational career growth was high, and it was positive when current growth was low. Future organizational career growth prospect weakened organizational identification–turnover intentions relationship. Those two moderators jointly influenced the indirect relationship. For employees low in both states, the positive indirect relationship was the most significant.
Originality/value
By integrating social identity theory and social cognitive theory, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of protean career orientation–turnover intentions relationship. It also enriches studies on protean career orientation and organizational identification–turnover intentions relationship.
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Acknowledgements
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 72201138; No. 72002199).
Citation
Zhu, L., Yang, H., Gao, Y. and Wang, Q. (2024), "Protean career orientation to turnover intentions: moderating roles of current organizational career growth and future organizational career growth prospect", Career Development International, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 234-250. https://doi.org/10.1108/CDI-07-2023-0249
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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