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Original Research

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Rezaean   A. (1)
Hatami   S. ()
Dastar   H. (2)






() Department of Public Management, Faculty of Management & Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
(1) Department of Public Management, , , , , Faculty of Management & Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
(2) Department of Business Management, , , , , Faculty of Social Sciences & Economy, Payam-e-Noor University, Garmsar, Iran

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Article History

Received:   June  28, 2011
Accepted:   January 1, 2012
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ABSTRACT

Aims Nowadays organizations play an important role in career management because of the change in career models. Career management functions helps individuals to achieve valuable goals. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between career management functions and career satisfaction among the employees of a military unit.
Methods In a descriptive correlation study in 2011, 92 employees of a military unit were selected by random sampling method. Kong et al. model was used for evaluating career management and Greenhaus et al. model was used for the evaluating career satisfaction. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, one sample T-test, simple regression and stepwise regression.
Results There was a significant positive relationship between career management functions and career satisfaction (p<0.05). Furthermore, the effect of all career management functions on career satisfaction came out to be significant (p<0.05) and forecasted about 86% of dependent variable variation.
Conclusion Career management functions including career evaluation, development and training have strong positive impact on career satisfaction in the studied military unit.


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