| Abstract [eng] |
The main purpose of this master thesis is to determine the impact of individual and organizational career management on employee work – life balance, as well as to provide some conclusions and practical recommendations for promoting career management and work – life balance. This work consists of four main parts: literature and existing empirical research analysis, research methodology and explorative study review, main research and results analysis, conclusions and recommendations. The literature analysis starts off with the discussion about career, the main prevailing career concepts. Then the main career management types are presented, as well as what empirical research has been done on them. Later on, we are introduced to the concept of work – life balance, it’s importance and relevance in the modern world and finally we are presented with the research that has been done on this topic. The theoretical part is concluded with the discussions about the links between these concepts, we are presented with the main research about these links as well as the authors hypothesis and suggested conceptual model. After the literature analysis a study was performed which investigated the correlational and moderational links between individual and organizational career management and work – life balance. To test this a quantitative survey was conducted which measured work - life balance, individual career management and organizational career management. 364 working adults from Lithuania participated in this study. Statistically analysis of the results was done using SPSS with A. F. Hayes PROCESS v3.5 plugin. The study found that individual career management and organizational career management is statistically significantly positively correlated with work life balance. It was also found that Individual career management moderates the relationship between organizational career management and work – life balance. Though this moderation positively affects only the ones that don’t partake or mildly partake in individual career management. In light of the complexity of work – life balance and the immeasurable and fully unaccountable factors that might affect it, the results proposed in this work should be treated accordingly, until more research is done on this subject in Lithuania. Despite that the results found in this study could prove useful as they shine a light to organizations showing that worker career management could be used as a means to further increase work – life balance. |
