Potential moderating influence of career growth opportunities on careerist orientation and work attitudes: evidence of the protean career era in Singapore
研究了新加坡集体主义文化下职业主义取向的跨文化适用性，发现职业成长机会无法有效调节职业主义对工作态度的负面影响。
The emerging transactional or protean employment contract appears to have precipitated the development of a careerist orientation on the part of employees. This study examined the generalizability of the construct in a collectivist culture and the potential moderating influence of career growth opportunities on the careerist orientation–work attitude relationships. The results tend to support the generalizability of careerist orientation across cultures and, importantly, showed an absence of a moderating influence for career growth opportunities, suggesting that organizations cannot effectively counter the negative effects of careerist orientation on work attitudes. Limitations of the study, directions for future research, and implication of the findings for organizational dependence on employees as a competitive resource are discussed. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.