The Mediating Role of Career Satisfaction in The Relation Between Career Commitment and Cultural Values in Women Healthcare Employees

Culture consists of many factors like language, religion, customs and habits, art, science, society, and history, which we call worldview or philosophy of life intertwined with each other. Culture also has an important role in the attitudes of people not only in their lifestyles, but also about the organizational elements in work life. As a result of the study conducted by Hofstede, who collected data from IBM employees in 76 countries to determine the differentiated cultural dimensions to identify societies, it was reported that culture has 6 dimensions in total. Career satisfaction, on the other hand, was defined by Kang et al. (2015) as the awareness of the individuals regarding their achievements in their current careers and their predictions for progress in future business life. Career commitment was defined by Mowday et al. (1982) as “the level of emotional commitment to a particular career”, and as “attitude towards a profession or career” by Blau (1989). In this study, firstly, the perceptions of female healthcare employees regarding cultural values, career satisfaction and career commitment were measured. Then, the relation levels of these three variables with each other were examined. Finally, it was analyzed whether career satisfaction had a significant mediating effect in the relation between cultural values and career commitment. The study was conducted with 184 female healthcare employees working in public healthcare institutions and organizations in the city of Çankırı; and three different scales were used in the study. When the findings were interpreted, frequency and percentage analysis, reliability analysis, factor analysis, arithmetic mean and standard deviation values, correlation analysis and hierarchical regression analyses were made use of. As a result of the study, it was determined that the mean perception scores of female healthcare employees regarding cultural values, career satisfaction and career commitment were at “moderate” levels, there were significant relations among these three variables, and that the career satisfaction variable had a partial mediating effect in the relation between values and career commitment.

Keywords

Career Satisfaction, Career Commitment, Cultural Values, Woman, Healthcare Employees.