ABSTRACT
Today‟s employees spend an incredible amount of time at the workplace and are expected to deliver workplace and home duties efficiently. Empowered employees seek career satisfaction and women IT professionals are no exception. This paper presents the outcomes of a study on career satisfaction among married women IT employees in Kerala State. The study sought to trace how select individual and inter-personal factors namely self-efficacy and work-family conflict serve to predict career satisfaction. Data were collected from 150 married women IT employees from three different IT companies in Kerala state using a questionnaire method. Multiple Regression Analysis was carried out to identify significant predictors of career satisfaction. The authors call for innovative and transformational human resource strategies to enhance the career satisfaction of married women IT professionals.
Keywords: Career Satisfaction, Self-efficacy, Work-family conflict, IT professionals, married women, Kerala.
Received : 6th January 2019
Accepted : 30th January 2019
Published : 13th February 2019
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