A Study on the Mediating Effects of Ego-Resilience on the Association between the Career Growth Opportunities and Withdrawal in Employees
AUTHORS
Gon-cheol Ha,63243 Doctoral Candidate, Dept. Business Administration, Graduate School, Jeju National Univ., Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Republic of Korea
Byung-woo Kim,63243 Ph.D, Dept. Business Administration, Jeju National Univ., Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Republic of Korea
ABSTRACT
The research on organizational behaviors has primarily focused on the promotion of employees' productive behaviors through positive attitudes and behaviors related to their organization and job and, ultimately, on the improvement in organizational effectiveness. This study was designed, taking into account the situation in which the relationships based on a psychological contract between an organization and an employee weakened as well as the issue of the decline in employment with the introduction of the concept of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Specifically, it aimed to confirm the association between withdrawal, which is typical of unproductive behavior inhibiting organizational consolidation, and career growth opportunities in a situation characterized by increasing anxiety about job security and employability. It also verified the mediating effects of ego-resilience as a positive result of adjustment by employees perceiving the risk in the association between these two variables. A survey was conducted in employees at public and private enterprises in South Korea; a total of 293 questionnaires were analyzed. The career growth opportunities perceived by employees were found to be significant variables. In contrast, their ego-resilience partially mediated between career growth opportunities and physical withdrawal but had insignificant mediating effects on the association between career growth opportunities and psychological withdrawal. Lastly, the significance and limitations of this study and the issues for further research were discussed.
KEYWORDS
career growth opportunity, ego-resilience, psychological withdrawal, physical withdrawal
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