• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.115-130
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• 2011

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of career plateau(structural and content plateau) on IT service technical engineers' career satisfaction and career withdrawal intention. Survey data were collected from 161 IT service technical engineers. The results indicated that structural and content plateau were negatively related to career satisfaction, and content plateau was positively related to career withdrawal intention, but not structural plateau. In addition, the results of hierarchical multiple regressions indicated that content plateau had stronger effect on career satisfaction and career withdrawal intention then content plateau.

• Journal of Service Research and Studies
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.117-131
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• 2016

This study analyzes the influence of the career plateau perceived by food service industry employees on their turnover intention. The perception of career plateau is classified as either structural or content-driven. This work also examines how organizational support (formal and informal) for career development affect turnover intention in their interaction with career plateau (structural and content-driven). The research hypothesis was objectively verified based on an analysis of the data on 255 employees. As a result, the structural and content-driven career plateaus perceived by employees were observed to have a positive overall effect on their turnover intention. Aslo, informal organizational support for career development moderates the relationship between career plateau and turnover intention but not formal organizational support.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제17권12호
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• pp.459-469
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• 2016

This study was designed to survey the degrees of career plateau, job satisfaction, and turnover intention of hospital nurses, as well as to identify the relationship among them. We surveyed 239 nurses working at five different hospitals in J city and C city. Data collection was conducted between April 1 and April 30, 2016. The data was analyzed using SPSS 23.0. This study shows that the significant factors influencing job satisfaction were content plateau and structural plateau, which account for 55.0% of the variance. It also shows that the significant factors that influence turnover intention were structural plateau, present clinical career, content plateau, and working department, which account for 43.0% of the variance. As such, we identified that a decrease in the content plateau of hospital nurses enhances job satisfaction and that a decrease in structural plateau reduces turnover intention. The results indicate that a systematic managerial strategy for nursing resources should be developed and applied in the nursing field. This strategy should supplement the content plateau by job redesign and job enrichment. In addition, to increase retention of skilled nurses and to achieve superior organizational performance, as well as to contribute to the success of hospital nurses, supplementation of the structural plateau by adopting and applying a career ladder system is important.

• Journal of Technology Innovation
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.122-145
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• 2018

This paper investigates the relationship between R&D professionals' career plateau and organizational commitment in which career plateau's sub-dimensions consist of structural and job-content plateau. Further, it aims to examine the moderating effect of age and creative behavior of R&D professionals on the relationship between career plateau and organizational commitment. Empirical data were collected from 418 R&D professionals who work for Government sponsored research institutions. The results showed that the relationship between structural plateau and organizational commitment is differently related depending on age level. That is, the negative relationship between structural plateau and organizational commitment is stronger for junior R&D professionals. Furthermore, the relationship between job-content plateau and organizational commitment is negatively related, and differs in the strength depending on the creative behavior level of R&D professionals. For one with stronger characteristics of creative behavior, job-content plateau is more negatively related to organizational commitment. Based on the results, some implications are suggested on the career plateau issues of R&D professionals who work for government sponsored research institutions. Finally, it is discussed on the limitations of this study and further research directions.

• Journal of Practical Engineering Education
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.541-551
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• 2024

Individual career development is getting more important in modern society. In this study, we investigated the effects of task difficulty and perceived colleague support to work grit and career identity, which are the most fundamental aspects of career development. To achieve the research goal, a total of 544 complete responses from the employees in South Korea were used for data analysis. The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling. The research results are as follows. First, task difficulty positively affect work grit. Second, perceived colleague support was found to have a statistically significant effect on work grit. Third, the path from task difficulty to career identity was not statistically significant. Fourth, perceived colleague support was shown to have a statistically significant effect on career identity. Fifth, work grit was found to have a statistically significant effect on career identity. Sixth, work grit was found to mediate the relationship between task difficulty, perceived colleague support, and career identity. These findings suggest that work grit plays a crucial mediating role in the impact of task difficulty and perceived colleague support on career identity. This underscores the need for continued in-depth exploration of work grit. Based on these research results, discussions and suggestions are presented.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.453-464
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• 2019

This study was to draw some managerial implications by examining the role of content career plateau, an individual's perception that one's own career is stagnated, in the relationship between the members' perception on HR practices and organizational commitment/turnover intention. The result showed that the perception on education/training practices has positive influence on organizational commitment, and a negative effect on turnover intention and career plateau. However, the perception on evaluation/compensation was shown to have no direct impact either on organizational commitment or on turnover intention. In addition, career plateau served as a partial mediator only between the perception on education/training practices and the attitudinal variables. Based on the results, some managerial/practical implications and suggestions for future research on career plateau are discussed.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.265-283
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• 2006

This study attempts to analyze factors that influence the level of career indecision for prospective librarians. To this end, an empirical study was conducted on the students from the department of Library & Information Science at universities located in Seoul, Kyunggi and Choong Chung Areas. Exogenous variables included personal, organizational and institutional characteristics. The result of analysis using the Structural Equation Model reveals that personal characteristics of students affect the level of career indecision whereas organizational and institutional characteristics do not have any statistical significance in career indecision. This suggests that, in order to raise the career decision level of prospective librarians. there is a need to develop programs to enhance occupational ego-identity and self-efficacy and to provide organizational and institutional supports, including better curriculum, improved practical ability and qualifications as librarians. This study also discusses its limits and areas for future research.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.103-114
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• 2023

Purpose - The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between organizational tenure, structural career plateau, and interpersonal deviant behavior for nurses. Moreover, this study also investigated moderating role of proactivity on the effect of organizational tenure on structural career plateau. Design/methodology/approach - This study utilized 448 nurses working at three different types of hospital. The Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and the multiple regression analysis were conducted to verify the hypotheses. Findings - The results showed that organizational tenure is positively related to structural career plateau and structural career plateau is positively related to interpersonal deviant behavior. However, moderating effect of proactivity is not significant. Research implications or Originality - Nurses are critical to the competitiveness of hospital organizations considering the proportion of manpower and the role of nurses. One of the important factors that decrease the motivation of nurses is structural career plateau. This study analyzed the antecedent and consequence of structural career plateau. In addition, practical implications for resolving the problem of structural career plateau were provided.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.35-48
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• 2018

This study aims to assess the training effect of QFD(Quality Functional Deployment) program for 3 years over startups, adopted from the conventional QFD widely used in the large companies to break up to a sluggish sales and growth, for employees working in startup whether the participants in startup and venture company taking this lessons into their real tasks or not. In particular, the focus of this study falls on figuring out whether individual characteristics of the participants play a role in moderating effect over transfer intension factors and its link path structure. The research results drive out two significant findings. First, in terms of relationship between the influence of transfer intension by self-efficacy and the validity of training content with the learner's readiness, the moderating effect of demographic features of the participants is effective partially by the sex and fully by their working position, but not statistically significant by age, education, and the prior startup career. This research deliver the following significant implication that the active participation of CEO level, decision-maker guarantee the higher performance of the training program like QFD program, more stresses falling on practical implementation in real business rather than just ending up with career training. This study gives significant policy implication to quasi-government organization running all public startup training projects.