Why do millennials stay in their jobs? The roles of protean career orientation, goal progress and organizational career management

In this paper we report a time-lagged study over six months analyzing the indirect effect of protean career orientation on changes in turnover intentions via personal work goal progress in a sample of millennial employees. Consistent with protean career theory and social exchange theory, we found th...

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Autores: Holtschlag, C. (Claudia)|||/items/3e87f5b8-ead2-4e3e-8bab-99a98417679a, Masuda, A.D. (Aline D.)|||/items/81e9ec2c-25c2-4cd2-bd96-aa9675968ae9, Reiche, B.S. (B. Sebastian)|||/items/93e8cbc5-c537-402c-9d5a-6b5517b86950, Morales, C. (Carlos)|||/items/9a0b169b-c39a-4283-986f-81b2676e87ec
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/120205
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/120205
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Protean career orientation
Millennials
Goal progress
Organizational career management
Turnover intentions
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Sumario:In this paper we report a time-lagged study over six months analyzing the indirect effect of protean career orientation on changes in turnover intentions via personal work goal progress in a sample of millennial employees. Consistent with protean career theory and social exchange theory, we found that protean career orientation indirectly leads to decreases in turnover intentions over time and this effect was moderated by organizational career management practices. This effect was observed because the relationship between goal progress and decreases in turnover intentions became less salient when organizations were perceived to offer high levels of formal career practices. We discuss the implications for research and practice.