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The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between superior's leadership styles and subordinate's achievement motivation on career strategy adoption by subordinates in the information service industry in Taiwan. Canonical correlation analysis and t-test were used to analyze the data. Results indicate that superior's leadership style is unrelated to subordinate's career strategy adoption, but subordinate's achievement motivation has a significant effect on their career strategy adoption. Additional, high achievement motivation employees adopt career strategies more frequently than do low achievement motivation employees.
1. Introduction
Along with the rapid progress of information technology (IT), increasing dependence on IT for industry and increasingly complicated information applications, the proportion of information services provided by IT gets higher and higher. The information service industry is designed for provide information service, including software package, turnkey system, system integration, professional service, data processing and network service. The demand for manpower and the retention of professionals in the industry will become one of the main issues for the information service industry. Currently, the lack of manpower in the information industry forces the suppliers to recruit talent from other corporations with attractive offers. The high turnover of employees will cause great loss to the enterprises involved. To retain employees and their devotion to the corporation and bring out their values to the enterprise, the enterprise should make the employees' career advances an important objective within the development of the organization. For this reason, the enterprise must understand employees' career strategies and their influences, as well as help them achieve their career goals and enhance their work performance, which in turn can 'push' the performance of the whole enterprise forward to the goal of permanent management and growth. The influences on career strategies are numerous; basically, they can be categorized as environmental factor, personal characteristics and experience, and need and values [22, 24]. Leadership is the ability that affects members to reach their targets [21], so we take the leadership styles of superiors to represent the environmental factor in this study. Among numerous personal characteristics, achievement motivation usually concerns individual job performance and job attitude [20, 21], while McClelland's Trichotomy of Needs Theory [15] also considers achievement motivation as one of the three major needs affecting people's work. Hence, this...