To examine the correlates of a careerist orientation to work, 104 managers completed the Careerist Orientation Scale as well as measures of the work attitudes of job satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment. They also indicated how much their salary had increased since joining the work force and how many promotions they had received over this time as indicators of career success. As predicted, careerism correlated significantly negatively with scores on most of the work attitude measures but positively with both indicators of career success. The results suggest that careerism can have positive and negative consequences for managers.
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