Construction and validation of components of Career Anchors

Abstract

On the one hand, identifying job anchors which has certain patterns of individually designed talents, capacities, attitudes and values establishes a clear path for employees. On the other hand, it helps managers develop HR retention and development. At the moment, conceptualizing and determining career anchor components of employees working in Tehran Education Department is a subject to theoretical ambiguity and a methodology rooted in lack of measurement tool. The purpose of this study is to construct and validate the career anchor tool. The statistical population of this study consists of 15 organizational experts who were purposefully selected for interviewing. To construct and validate the tool, a total of 270 out of 900 employees working in Tehran Education Department was selected usingCochran formula and stratified random method. Internal homogeneity of items and combined credit index were employed for the validity. Average variance extracted and Fornell-Larcker index were used for the validity.A qualitative data analysis method was used in order to identify the career anchor factors. Delphi was used to evaluate and refine the indices extracted by grounded theory. Also, Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was used to evaluate the model fitting. Findings show that the tool consists of four main © BFuP Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis International Journal ISSN: 0340-5370 Publisher : VERLAG NEUE WIRTSCHAFTS-BRIEFE, ESCHSTR 22, HERNE, GERMANY, 44629 Country: GERMANI Website : www.bpupraxis.org Email : kirsizien@amu.edu.pl parts: Technical/Functional Competence, Management Competence, Independence, and Pure Challenges. The results verify the validity and reliability of career anchor questionnaire.