The Effect of External Motivation and Work Overload on Career Anchor Development

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Purpose of this study is to test relationship between career anchor developed by employees and sense of work spillover, determine effect level of external motivation and sense of work spillover if there is a statistically significant relation and offer suggestions that will decrease career anchors of the employees by increasing their performances in the career occupations. Depending upon this purpose, data has been obtained from 67 doctors working in university hospital of X Higher Education Institution by means of survey method. This data has been evaluated by SPSS program and analyzed using correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, Kruskal-Wallis H Test and Mann-Whitney U test. In conclusion of the analyses conducted, there is a significant relation between external motivation factors and career anchor and there is no statistically significant relation between work spillover and career anchor. When integrated effect is examined, however, it has been determined that work spillover has an effect on career anchors in presence of external motivation factors. It has been determined that 1 unit increase in sense of work spillover causes 0.398 increase in development of career anchor and 1 unit increase in external motivation factors causes 0.566 decrease in development of career anchor.