Subjective Career Success: A Scale Adaptation Study

Year 2017, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 87 - 99, 23.10.2017

Gökhan Budak Sait Gürbüz

https://doi.org/10.18394/iid.280529

Cited By: 8

Abstract

Subjective Career Success underlines these
points such as being proud of an employee of his job and career, achieving the
most important goals, providing work-life balance and feeling tranquility
himself in job. The main purpose of this study is to examine the Turkish
adaptation of subjective career success scale explored by Shockley,, Ureksoy,
Rodopman, Poteat and Dullaghan (2015) which consists of 24 items and eight
dimensions “satisfaction”, “growth and development”, “personal life”,
“authenticity”, “influence”, “meaningful work”, “quality work”, “recognition”
and to test validity and reliability of it. The sample is composed of both
public sector and private sector. The findings show that the reliability
coefficients of the sub dimensions of the scale varied between 0.79 and 0.91.
Moreover, the results of factor analysis confirmed the fit of the eight factor
model measuring the “satisfaction”, “growth and development”, “personal life”,
“authenticity”, “influence”, “meaningful work”, “and quality work”, “recognition”.
Ultimately, it was determined that the scale is a reliable and valid
measurement scale and it can be used in studies in Turkey.

Keywords

Subjective career success, Scale adaptation, Reliability, Validity

Öznel Kariyer Başarısı: Bir Ölçek Uyarlama Çalışması

Abstract

Öznel
kariyer başarısı; işgörenin yaptığı işten ve kariyerinden gurur duyması,
hayatındaki en önemli hedeflerini gerçekleştirmesi, iş-yaşam dengesi sağlaması ve
huzur duyması gibi göstergelere vurgu yapmaktadır. Bu çalışmanın amacı;
Shockley, Ureksoy, Rodopman, Poteat ve Dullaghan (2015) tarafından
geliştirilen, ‘tanınma’, ‘işin niteliği’, ‘işin anlamlılığı’, ‘etki’,
‘otantik’, ‘kişisel yaşam’, ‘büyüme ve gelişme’ ve ‘tatmin’ olmak üzere sekiz
boyut ve 24 maddeden oluşan Öznel Kariyer Başarısı Ölçeğinin Türkçeye
uyarlanmasını yaparak, ölçeğin güvenilirlik ve geçerliliğini test etmektir.
Çalışma kamu (N=366) ve özel sektör (N=373) olmak üzere iki farklı örneklemden
alınan verilerle yürütülmüştür. Yapılan analiz çalışmalarından elde edilen
bulgular, ölçeğin alt boyutlarının güvenilirlik katsayılarının 0.79 ile 0.91
arasında değiştiğini göstermiştir. Ayrıca yapılan faktör analizi sonucunda,
“tanınma”, “işin niteliği”, “işin anlamlılığı”, “etki”, “otantik”, “kişisel
yaşam”, “büyüme ve gelişme” ve “tatmin” boyutlarını içeren sekiz faktörlü yapı
doğrulanmıştır. Netice olarak güvenilir ve geçerli bir ölçüm aracı olan ölçeğin
Türkiye’de yapılacak araştırmalarda kullanılabilir olduğu saptanmıştır.

Keywords

Öznel kariyer başarısı, Ölçek uyarlama, Güvenilirlik, Geçerlilik

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