Author(s)

Qianni Gu¹, Yong Su²

¹School of Management, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai, China.
²School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Studies on the relationship between objective career success and subjective career success are seldom in the career success research. In this study, we hypothesize a positive relationship between objective career success and subjective career success. Moreover, we conduct interview to find out the new indicators for measuring the subjective career success in Chinese context. Further, we come up with self-awareness as moderator. We hypothesize that people with high public self-awareness have strong relationship between objective career success and subjective career success; people with high private self-awareness have weak relationship between objective career success and subjective career success. However, the results are not entirely as expected. The public self-awareness has impact but the private self-awareness has no impact on this relationship.

Subjective Career Success, Objective Career Success, Private Self-Awareness, Public Self-Awareness

Gu, Q. and Su, Y. (2016) How Does Objective Career Success Affect Subjective Career Success? The Moderating Role of Self-Awareness. Journal of Human Resource and Sustainability Studies, 4, 227-237. doi: 10.4236/jhrss.2016.43025.