The study of career development in the human resource development has become a key topic of interest among human resource management researchers over the past
decade. This dissertation advances understanding of mechanism between individual dispositio...
The study of career development in the human resource development has become a key topic of interest among human resource management researchers over the past
decade. This dissertation advances understanding of mechanism between individual dispositions and subjective career success on why employees in organizations
develop career. In this paper, under the approach of content theory in career development of which individual personality and characteristics contribute, the research model is designed and carried out the process to prove the approach. Furthermore, there is almost few an empirical study with career learning in career development. This researcher conducted to prove 3 hypothesis comprehensively. First, individual dispositions like learning goal orientation and proactive personality will be positively related to a) career learning, b) career competence, c) subjective career success. Second, career learning and career competence will have positive impact to subjective career success. Third, career learning and career competence will mediate the links between individual dispositions and subjective career success. Data collected from employees who have worked for companies of three types like local government, manufacturing business, and service area, Jeju province. This dissertation designed to conduct quantity research 219 of all data acquired were
operated to analysis. The findings are indicated at three parts. First, individual dispositions were positively related to career learning and career competence as I expected. Furthermore, learning goal orientation and proactive personality as individual disposition has an significant
impact to subjective career success. Second, career learning and career competence are important variables to explain for the subjective career success. Third, mediating effect of career learning and career competence had different results. Mediation in the links between goal learning orientation and outcome variables are significant as full mediating effect. Whereas mediators in the links between goal learning orientation and outcome variables had no significant results. The implications of study are as follows. At first, this research contribute to expend the research area in career development and to demonstrate the relationships between dispositions and career learning the relation empirically. Second, it demonstrated the
mechanism on how employee develop career. Because there are few research on how employee train career through what type of training mechanism, this research is
meaningful to demonstrate the mechanism.