The determinants of subjective career success among managers: a moderating effect of the lifestyle anchor[¿Los espacios de coworking, catalizadores de las intenciones empresariales de los empleados?]

This article explores the determinants of the subjective career success of French managers, with a focus on the lifestyle career anchor and its moderating effect. The originality of this paper exists at two levels. Firstly, whilst subjective career success is commonly operationalized by career satisfaction and job satisfaction, work-life balance has become an important criterion of subjective career success for the French. So far, no study has singled out this aspect of life satisfaction. It is for this reason that we have chosen to study subjective career success through both job satisfaction and work-life balance satisfaction. Secondly, whilst career anchors have been studied as determinants of subjective career success, the moderating effects of these anchors have only been analysed to a limited extent. Our study uses the lifestyle anchor to moderate the relationship between subjective career success and its predictors. To this end, we collected data from 208 French managers. We carried out a moderated multiple regression analysis using SPSS. On the one hand, our results show that regarding job satisfaction, the lifestyle anchor moderates its relationships with age, perceived organizational support and salary. On the other hand, with regard to work-life balance satisfaction, the lifestyle anchor moderates its relationships with marital status and span of control. Our study highlights the importance of taking into account the worklife balance in the professional development of managers, especially for those with a lifestyle career anchor. The burden of managerial responsibilities can affect this balance and consequently the perception of managers' career success. We recommend companies set up HR policies and practices that support managers' work-life balance.