Career Planning as a Building Block for Personal Excellence

• Authors: Marija Turnšek Mikačić , Marija Ovsenik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The narrow field of research here is the development of a model for the building of personal excellence using a career plan that is empirically tested and confirmed, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The purpose of this study relates to the writing of a career plan, for the determination of the factors that influence the feeling of personal excellence of participants in career planning education, in relation to other participants who are not. The qualitative analysis consists of basic experience data that was collected during the education process, through 20 essays, and the paradigmatic model, with the final theory defined, and based on this, a questionnaire was created. The quantitative analysis involved a total of 547 participants. For the statistical analyses of the data, bivariate analysis was used to assess the linear connection of individual pairs of variables. The search for differences between the two groups used t-tests for independent samples. Factor analysis was used to determine whether the relations among the examined variables can be explained with a smaller number of indirectly examined variables. The final model consists of three elements: (1) relation with career; (2) self-esteem; and (3) perception of personal excellence. Management can use the results of this study for management decisions. The increased success of every individual organisation benefits the whole of society. This study represents an original contribution and offers a new approach that is based on the paradigm of the understanding of a career and the importance of its planning as a motive for excellence.

Keywords

EN

career planning; personal excellence; career break; qualitative analyses; quantitative analyses; neurolinguistic programming

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 235-252

Dates

published

2013-11-01

online

2013-12-31

Contributors

author

Marija Turnšek Mikačić

• Grm Novo mesto - Centre of Biotechnology and Tourism, College of Agriculture and Landscape Management, Sevno 13, 4000 Novo mesto, Slovenia

author

Marija Ovsenik

• Institute for Management, Ulica bratov Škofov 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/orga-2013-0024