Impact of Personality on Career Success: Mediating effect of Career Mobility and Career Embeddedness

Abstract

The pace of interest in career success in the workplace is gaining momentum around the globe; the existing literature is filled with promise of what exploration of individual personality traits can do in organizational context. However, the study of career embeddedness and career mobility under this context is under-examined in the IT sector of Pakistan. The conducted study contributes to literature by exploring the impact of the big five personality traits as an important indicator of career success in the IT sector of Pakistan, keeping in view the effects of career embeddedness and career mobility as mediators. Data has been collected through online questionnaires from 268 employees working in private software houses of Pakistan. To examine the data that was collected, statistical tools such as correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling have been applied. The findings of this study have given decent proof for the hypotheses that were formulated, describing the relationship between personality and career success with mediating impacts of career embeddedness and career mobility. The motive of this research is to explore the impact of big five personality traits on career success with the mediating role of career embeddedness and career mobility. An individual’s personality has an important role in career success. The concepts of Personality and Career success have been well explored however their relationship might alter under the influence of career embeddedness and career success as mediators. The researcher was inspired for this reason to examine the relationship between personality and career success and the role of career embeddedness and career mobility to strengthen this relationship. Therefore, this thesis provides an original contribution to existing literature. This thesis opens new outlook for future researchers and these findings have noteworthy connection in the IT industry.