Antecedent of Employees’ Career Satisfaction: An Empirical Investigation of Pharmaceutical Sector of Pakistan

Abstract

The study is conducted to determine the significant relationships among Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Supervisor’s Support, and Employee Career Satisfaction. The data have collected from the employees of ten major pharmaceutical companies in Pakistan. Pharmaceutical sector of Pakistan is growing day by day even in law and order situation and energy crisis in country. But high turnover is also reported. This study is conducted to check employee career satisfaction within company and industry. The instrument to measure the variables was adopted from different relevant studies and data was collected from 155 respondents. The SPSS was run on the collected data and analyzed the results. The current study finds a positive correlation between job satisfaction and employee career satisfaction; organizational commitment and employee career satisfaction; and supervisor’s support and employee career satisfaction. The main reason to conduct research on the proposed construct is to fulfill the gap and to provide theoretical as well as empirical evidences for researchers, practitioners, and marketers (specially belonging to pharmaceutical organizations). In the real practice, this research is helpful to companies as well as employees of the pharmaceutical industries to understand the behavior of their attitudes towards their profession and the field.

Keywords: Job Satisfaction (JS), Organizational Commitment (OC), Supervisor’s Support (SS), and Career Satisfaction (CS).