Exploring the Career Orientation of the Technical Professionals Especially the Project-Oriented

The variables of job attitudes tested include career orientation, organizational commitments, job involvement, work perception, job satisfaction, ideal job characteristics and some job attitude variables in self-evaluation. The focus is on the linkage between these variables and technical people’s career choice toward advance, especially to those oriented in project-typed work irrespective of promotion.

Demographic profiles among groups of different career choices are also compared. Practical implications in terms of the research outcomes are discussed.