Exploring teachers’ career self-management. Considering the roles of organizational career management, occupational self-efficacy, and learning goal orientation

Abstract

The current study examines how organizational career manage ment – i.e. activities undertaken by schools in order to plan and manage teachers’ careers – relates to teachers’ career self management – i.e. teachers steering their careers by means of searching for opportunities, networking, or seeking supervisory support. Moreover, it examines the mediating roles of occupa tional self-efficacy and learning goal orientation in this relation ship. Mediation analysis in SPSS, using the PROCESS macro of survey data from 220 Dutch secondary school teachers, showed that positive relationships between organizational career manage ment and career self-management were mediated by occupational self-efficacy and learning goal orientation.