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Document Type : Original Research

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1 Department of Public Management, Faculty of Management & Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Business Management, Faculty of Social Sciences & Economy, Payam-e-Noor University, Garmsar, Iran

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  Aims: Nowadays organizations play an important role in career management because of the change in career models. Career management functions helps individuals to achieve valuable goals. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship between career management functions and career satisfaction among the employees of a military unit.   Methods: In a descriptive correlation study in 2011, 92 employees of a military unit were selected by random sampling method. Kong et al model was used for evaluating career management and Greenhouse et al model was used for the evaluating career satisfaction. Data were analyzed by SPSS 16 software using Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, one sample T-test, simple regression and stepwise regression.   Results: There was a significant positive relationship between career management functions and career satisfaction (p < 0.05). Furthermore, the effect of all career management functions on career satisfaction came out to be significant (p < 0.05) and forecasted about 86% of dependent variable variation.   Conclusion: Career management functions including career evaluation, development and training have strong positive impact on career satisfaction in the studied military unit.

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Journal of Military Medicine
Volume 13, Issue 4 - Serial Number 46
January and February 2012
Pages 217-221

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