TY - JOUR
T1 - Career Commitment in STEM
T2 - A Moderated Mediation Model of Inducements, Expected Contributions, and Organizational Commitment
AU - Cai, Huiru
AU - Ocampo, Anna Carmella G.
AU - Restubog, Simon Lloyd D.
AU - Kiazad, Kohyar
AU - Deen, Catherine Midel
AU - Li, Min
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71472066) and the Australian Research Council (DP170101514).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - In this article, we draw insights from the employee–organization framework to test a model linking offered inducements and expected contributions to career commitment through organizational commitment. Data were collected from 396 full-time chemists and laboratory specialists who work in a large health-care organization in China. Results revealed that organizational commitment mediated the relationships between employee–organization framework (i.e., offered inducements and expected contributions) and career commitment. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that the conditional indirect effects of offered inducements in predicting career commitment via organizational commitment were stronger for high as opposed to low expected contributions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
AB - In this article, we draw insights from the employee–organization framework to test a model linking offered inducements and expected contributions to career commitment through organizational commitment. Data were collected from 396 full-time chemists and laboratory specialists who work in a large health-care organization in China. Results revealed that organizational commitment mediated the relationships between employee–organization framework (i.e., offered inducements and expected contributions) and career commitment. Moderated mediation analyses further revealed that the conditional indirect effects of offered inducements in predicting career commitment via organizational commitment were stronger for high as opposed to low expected contributions. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
KW - STEM workforce
KW - career commitment
KW - employee–organization relationship
KW - expected contributions
KW - offered inducements
KW - organizational commitment
KW - social exchange
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U2 - 10.1177/1069072717695586
DO - 10.1177/1069072717695586
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044788065
SN - 1069-0727
VL - 26
SP - 359
EP - 376
JO - Journal of Career Assessment
JF - Journal of Career Assessment
IS - 2
ER -