Abstract:
The career orientation of the people is one of the decisive determinants of work related outcomes. The career orientation of Sri Lankan is significantly changing
forever due to the vicissitudes take place in the world of work. The present study aims
to examine the effect of protean career orientation on the career planning of
individuals. Conveniently selected 154 academic and non-academic staff from public
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) participated in the study. A self-administrated
questionnaire was issued among the respondents. Two hypotheses were developed.
Partial Least Squares (PLS) method and independent-sample t-test were used to test
the hypotheses. The study found that protean career orientation has a significant direct
impact on career planning and there is no statistically significant mean difference
between men and women in terms of their career orientation; however, they are
significantly different in planning their careers.
