| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立聯合大學 === 管理碩士學位學程 === 98 === In recent years, many enterprises have restructured and downsized their organizational structures and labor forces in order to remain their competitive edge. Thus, the number of people who are unlikely to receive future promotions has increased. In addition, due to it is different in human personality, leading them to make choices and to take actions that have quite different consequences for the evolution of their careers. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between locus of control and achievement motivation on career plateau for knowledge workers.
The data was collected through self-administered questionnaire at two times. First, this study used the database from China Credit Information Service (CCIS) as sample frame, randomly selected subjects from high-tech industries in Taiwan. A total of 642 questionnaires were mailed and 68 were returned for a response rate of 11%. Second, the sample in this study was drawn from knowledge workers in the high-tech industry in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park (HSIP). A total of 120 questionnaires were distributed, of which 120 were returned and 18 questionnaires were invalid. A total number of 157 were valid questionnaires.
The major findings of our study can be summarized as follows:
1. The types of industries which knowledge workers work for were not influence their career plateaus.
2. Locus of control has significant impact on job content plateau. The knowledge workers with external locus of control have higher job content plateau. In turn, the knowledge workers with internal locus of control have lower job content plateau.
3. Locus of control has significant impact on hierarchical plateau. The knowledge workers with external locus of control have higher hierarchical plateau. In turn, the knowledge workers with internal locus of control have lower hierarchical plateau.
4. Achievement motivation has significant impact on job content plateau. The knowledge workers with high achievement motivation have lower job content plateau. In turn, the knowledge workers with low achievement motivation have higher job content plateau.
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