Employee Engagement as Mediator in the Association between Women Engineers’ Person-Vocation Fit and Subjective Career Success
List of Authors
Dina Azleema Mohamed Nor, Khadijah Nordin, Rozilawati Mahadi, Syahira Sa’aban, Tisya Farida Abdul Halim, Ummi Naiemah Saraih
Keyword
Employee Engagement; Malaysia; Person-Vocation Fit; Subjective Career Succes; Women Engineer
Abstract
Nowadays, many women work in fields that were previously dominated by men. Past research shows that a person-vocation (PV) fit leads to good work results, but there is not much evidence that this factor has an effect on the progression of subjective career success, especially for women who work in male-dominated fields. This paper is interested in two variables: PV fit and subjective career success. It also wants to see if employee engagement acts as a mediator in the relationship between PV fit and subjective career success. The sample is made up of 398 women engineers from five Malaysian states using the stratified random sampling technique. Smart-PLS software is used to perform data analysis. The results show that having a good PV fit is related to having a good sense of subjective career success, with a value of β =0.145, t = 5.169, and p<.05. Employee engagement has a small (f2=0.087) mediating effect on the relationship between PV fit and subjective career success (β =0.183, t=2.286, p<.05). Based on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), future research should examine women's careers from both perspectives, including objective and subjective indicators, to gain a better understanding of how women engineers work.