Includes parents, significant others, family, relatives, friends, and coworkers. For instance, a person may have chosen a career path based on his or her father's expectations or a friend's recommendation that he or she pursue a specific position ( Carpenter & Foster, 1977 ; Beynon et al., 1998 ). Peer groups and teachers, according to Morgan, Isaac, and Sansone (2001) , are two more sub-variables of interpersonal influence that can have a substantial impact on a person's employment selection. Interpersonal factors, to put it another way, take into account the impact of early exposure to diverse occupations and professions.
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An Expanded Framework of Factors Influencing Career Choice
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9581-7.ch011
Abstract
Studies on career choice are crucial, and the earliest iteration of career choice framework is the three-dimensional framework that is composed to determine the underlying concepts of intrinsic, extrinsic, and interpersonal factors behind a career. However, most frameworks in literature does not consider the public and private sectors as a variable impacting career choice. Recent studies have shown that perceived work in the public sector or the private sector may alter factors influencing career choice. This is imperative as every economy is divided into two sectors. Private and public sector organisations have varying objectives, and a study is needed in order to study their effect on career choice. Therefore, the objective of this chapter is to propose a new, updated framework studying factors influencing career choice, whereby the two dimensions of public and private sector will be added as part of the framework of career choice. This chapter also specifies the items under intrinsic, extrinsic, and interpersonal factors.