조직내/외 경력이동 모형의교차타당화 및 중다표본 분석을 통한 일반화

Abstract

This study was intended to cross-validate and generalize the ‘internal/external career movement model’ proposed by Oh, Suh, and Shin (2004). To achieve these purposes, the study was conducted by taking the following steps. After cross-validation with an independent sample was carried out, the model was tested using multi-sample analysis to examine if the cross-validated model generalizes across two demographic variables such as job levels/positions (manager-level vs. non-managerial level) and job types (sales vs. non-sales). First, the ‘internal/external career movement model’ was cross-validated using 585 clerical employees working for a large Korean company. The result revealed that the model showed satisfactory fit indices, and thus it was successfully cross-validated. In addition, the alternative model inputing ‘turnover intention’ instead of ‘external career movement intention’ also indicated satisfactory fit indices. Moreover, the zero-order correlation between two variables was very high (r=.86), which suggested that employees could not distinguish those two measures empirically. Next, multi-sample analysis was conducted and it showed that a non-managerial (low job-level) sub-sample showed higher negative path coefficient than a managerial (high job-level) sub-sample in terms of the relationship between ‘job satisfaction’ and ‘internal career movement intention’ and that between ‘career satisfaction’ and ‘external career movement intention.’ However, there was no difference between sales and non-sales sub-samples in terms of the ‘internal/external career movement model’, so the model perfectly generalized. This suggested that the direction of career development and management practices should be based upon job levels rather than job types in Korea. In addition, research limitations, future research directions, and implications for human resource management were discussed.