From Agility to Achievement: Exploring How Career Adaptability and Boundary-less Mindset Shape Career Success
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.70670/sra.v3i4.1151Keywords:
Career Agility, Career Success, Career Optimism, Career adaptability, Boundary less Mindset, Career construction theory (CCT).Abstract
Purpose: The purpose of the study is to examine how Career Agility (CA) influences Career Success (CS) and Career Optimism (CO) based on the mediating effect of Career Adaptability (CAD) and moderating effect of boundaryless mindset.
Methodology: The employees of different telecom sectors in Rawalpindi, Islamabad Pakistan were the owners of the data used in this study and the sample used in this study was 390, the sampling technique employed to collect data was the convenience and the data analysis technique employed was that of correlation and regression.
Findings: The results were derived with the help of the theory of career construction, and career agility was identified to have a strong impact on career optimism and career adaptability, but not on the career success itself. Rather, career adaptability proved to be an important mediator, which transformed agility to fruitful career results. Further, the moderating effect of a boundaryless mindset was not confirmed, which showed that it does not contribute to the connection between career agility and adaptability significantly.
Significance: This current research contributes to knowledge on career development, and provides rich information in the development of Career Adaptability in the act of dynamic workplace.
Limitations and Future Directions: There are a number of limitations to this study. First, it is cross-sectional in nature and thus restricts the establishment of causal relationship among variables. Second, the use of self-reported information can result in bias proposing the utilization of various data in the future. Also, the paper concentrated on workers at the Telecom industry of the Pakistani economy and this might constrain the extrapolation of the study to other scenarios and sectors. Future research ought to incorporate a more varied population in the various sectors and regions to be more valid. Finally, although this research investigated the concept of Career Adaptability and a Boundaryless Mindset, other possible moderating or mediating factors have not been investigated.
Research implications: The research points out that managers need to promote Career Agility and Adaptability by means of ongoing learning and encouragement.
