Tee Poh  Kiong, Benjamin Chan  Yin-Fah, 
    Exploring Factors Towards Career Success in Malaysia,
    International Business Management,
    Volume 10,Issue 17,
    2016,
    Pages 3936-3943,
    ISSN 1993-5250,
    ibm.2016.3936.3943,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.3936.3943)
    Abstract: The purpose of the study is to explore the factors affecting employees’s career success and develop a theoretical framework and testable propositions concerning how individual protean career attitude and organizational learning practices related to employees’ career success. Further insight was proposed in determining the mediating impact of perceived employability toward these construct. Review of past literatures is used to addresses the conceptual boundaries for this study and justify the proposed research framework with the hypothesis of the relationship between the constructs. This research study adopting quantitative method of data analysis through self-administered questionnaire on the academic staffs from the Malaysia private institute of higher learning. In total, 352 completed questionnaires were returned out of the 750 distributed, yielding a response rate of 47%. Supporting the hypotheses, the results showed that both individual protean career attitude and organizational learning practices are positively correlated with perceived employability and career success. Perceived employability mediated the relationship between individual protean career attitude, organizational learning practices and career success. In addition, perceived employability proved as the strongest predictor among all the variables. This study may help employers understand how today’s employee will perceived career success from the perspective of the employability connection framework. In addition, the finding of this study may add knowledge to local and international human resource managers to develop an effective learning and development strategies that highly impact employees’ employability in order to facilitate their employees in pursuing their career success.
    Keywords: Career success;organizational learning;protean career;employability;adopting quantitative