Despite the growing importance of careers and its probable influence on work
attitudes, only McKelvey and Sekaran (1977) have proposed a career-based
theory of job involvement. If their career-based theory of job involvement is to offer
practical suggestions on how to improve job involvement, its generalisability will
need to be established Data obtained from a sample of technical professionals
(engineers, N=210) employed in the electronics industry in Singapore were used to
test McKelvey and Sekaran's career-based theory of job involvement. The theory
posits job involvement as an outcome of the fit between career, personality, job
and organisational characteristics. Our findings are supportive of the theory. First
and second-order regression analyses improved the amount of variance in job
involvement explained In addition, the analyses indicated each subgroup to become
job involved under a different configuration of variables. Implications of the findings
and directions for future studies are discussed
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