Predictors_of_executive_career_success by Timothy A. Judge & colleagues
What factors lead some executives to be more successful in their careers than others? This interesting and important question has been only partially answered through prior research. In fact, examination of the relevant literatures reveals that knowledge of executive career success can be enhanced in several ways. First, researchers have predicted career success primarily with a few variables in a piecemeal fashion, without considering the relative effects of manifold sets of theoretically-based variables (e.g., Gattiker & Larwood, 1989; Judge & Bretz, 1994).
Furthermore, although executive career success has generated considerable interest in
the business press, little rigorous empirical research is available. Third, little research has
examined executives’ satisfaction with their careers, and research that is available often has
relied exclusively on common-method, self-report data (cf. Cox & Cooper, 1989; Gattiker &
Larwood, 1986, 1988; Judge & Bretz, 1994). Finally, almost no research simultaneously has
examined both the objective (e.g., compensation) and subjective (e.g., career satisfaction)
aspects of career success (Gattiker & Larwood, 1989), although both appear to be essential to a
complete treatment of this issue.
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