An Exploratory Study of Career Anchors in Business Higher Education

Cătălina Radu, Daniel Jiroveanu and Georgiana Costache
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Daniel Jiroveanu: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
Georgiana Costache: Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, 2016, vol. XVI, issue 1, 397-402

Abstract: In this paper we aim to explore the topic of Schein’s career anchors in a particular local context (business higher education in Romania). In order to so, we studied the literature on career anchors and applied the test for 86 students of Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of International Business and Economics, 1st year of study. As expected, we observed a higher negative correlation between general managerial and lifestyle anchors and a series of other general relationships. More than a half of the respondents are autonomy-anchored and more than a third seem to have the entrepreneurial creativity anchor. We are cautious with respect to the results, since people without work experience might find a series of statements very interesting, but value them incorrectly based on a series of assumptions they make. For our small sample we could not validate the hypothesis that women are more lifestyle oriented than men.

Keywords: career anchors; business higher education; students; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A20 I23 J24 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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