Linking protean and boundaryless career with organizational commitment: The case of young adults in finance sector

Abstract

Purpose

Due to the changes in the market, the shift to proactive and self-developed career management is evident. It results in the emergence of contemporary career attitudes, namely, protean and boundaryless ones. Individuals with protean career (PC) and boundaryless career (BC) attitudes may be more inclined to switch jobs, which affect decreased organizational commitment. The purpose of this paper is to analyze whether PC and BC attitudes affect organizational commitment of young adults in finance sector.

Design/methodology/approach

The data of 177 young Lithuanian adults from finance sector were collected in quantitative research.

Findings

The research results indicate that young adults in finance sector have contemporary career attitudes significantly expressed. The regression analysis findings show that affective commitment is positively predicted by self-directed career management and boundaryless mindset, and negatively predicted by values-driven career orientation and organizational mobility preference. Continuance commitment is negatively predicted by self-directed career management and organizational mobility preference.

Originality/value

This research is valuable as few if any studies cover contemporary career attitudes and organizational commitment of already working young adults in finance sector in a European country, namely, Lithuania.

Citation

Alonderienė, R. and Šimkevičiūtė, I. (2018), "Linking protean and boundaryless career with organizational commitment: The case of young adults in finance sector", Baltic Journal of Management, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 471-487. https://doi.org/10.1108/BJM-06-2017-0179