The effects of career anchors on organisational life: the importance of promoting commitment
Guido Sarchielli, Stefano Toderi, Silvia Modenese
This paper aims to verify whether career anchors (as attributes of the professional self) are associated with organisational commitment. 161 employees of a public administration in a Northern-Italian region filled in a questionnaire including the COI-IT Career Orientation Inventory and the OCS-Organizational Commitment Scale. The results show that talent-based anchors and value-based anchors are related to affective and normative commitment, while need-based anchors correlate to continuance commitment. Furthermore, the various anchor categories differentially and significantly affect the three types of commitment. The practical implications of these findings are also underlined.
Keywords
career anchors; affective commitment; normative commitment; continuance commitment.
