Work attitudes, career success and health: Evidence from China

Marcello Russo (), Liang Guo () and Yehuda Baruch
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Liang Guo: Pôle Entrepreneuriat et Innovation - Rouen Business School - Rouen Business School
Yehuda Baruch: Southampton Management School - University of Southampton

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Abstract: Research on the determinants and implications of career success, and in particular on how they are related to health among Chinese workers is scarce. This research explores the impact and relevance of individual attitudes of trust and organizational citizenship behavior on objective and subjective career success, and their relevance to physical and mental health. Further, we explore the moderating role of a career system on the relationships between work attitudes and career success. Using a random sample of 10,372 people in China we used multi-level linear regression methodology to explore a mediation-moderation model based on organizational theories. We found support for the impact of organizational citizenship behaviors and trust, for both objective and subjective career success as mediators of mental and physical health, and for a career system as a moderator, with significant differences emerging between workers employed in the public and private sectors. The results are important as they shed light on the relationship between work and life attitudes on outcomes of high relevance at national level. The original contribution would be of interest to policy makers at both organizational and national level.

Keywords: Trust; Organizational citizenship behavior; Career success; Career system; Health; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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Published in Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2014, Vol. 84 (n° 3), pp 248-258. ⟨10.1016/j.jvb.2014.01.009⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jvb.2014.01.009

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