The effect of career adaptability on the promotion by organizational job mediating ingratiation and moderating job support

Subject Areas : Human Capital Empowerment

dariush tahmasebi ¹ , zohreh rahimi ² , gholamreza salimi ³

1 - Ph.D. Student Business Policies management, Faculty of Management, Farabi Campus University of Tehran , Qom, Iran
2 - MA, Faculty of Management and Accounting, University of Semnan, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Strategy Management, University of national defense.

Received: 2019-03-09 Accepted : 2019-05-26 Published : 2019-05-22

Keywords: job promotion, career adaptability, Ingratiation, Job support,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of career adaptability on career promotion through ingratiation and moderation of job support. This is a correlation study and a questionnaire was used to collect data. Its content validity was confirmed by experts, academic professors and expert experts. Reliability of the instrument was calculated at the appropriate level by calculating the Cronbach's alpha. A sample of 76 employees of the maskan bank of Semnan province formed the statistical sample of this study and the sampling method was available in this study (random). Findings of the research showed that career adaptability has a positive and significant effect on job promotion and ingratiation also the positive effect of ingratiation on job promotion has been confirmed. But job support was not able to moderate the effect of career adaptability on job promotion, and the final assumption that the role of mediating ingratiation between career adaptability and job promotion was confirmed.

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