Research about the determination of the relationship between career anchor and career satisfaction on employees generation X and Y

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the differences between X and Y generation employees in terms of determining the relationship between career anchors and career satisfaction. The study has been completed in four chapters in the framework of this aim. In the first chapter, the concept of career anchor has been discussed; and first of all, fundamental topics such as the definition of the concept of career, career development phases, career problems and career management have been included. Then, the first chapter has been completed by discussing career anchors. In the second chapter, conceptual framework of career satisfaction has been presented. In this chapter, dimensions of career, definition of career satisfaction and related concepts, factors affecting career satisfaction and subjective and objective career satisfaction concepts have been explained. The third chapter has been devoted to the topic of generations in business life. In this chapter, after discussing topics such as the concept of generations, classification of generations, generation theories and properties of different generations, statements have been made about the differences between X and Y generations in business life. The fourth chapter has been dedicated to application of the study and in this chapter, firstly, the methodology of the study has been presented; and then the study has been completed by including the findings. The survey method has been used as the data obtaining technique of the study. The survey data have been interpreted by being analyzed in the SPSS statistics program. According to the results of the study, considering to what extent do career anchors determine career satisfaction in the framework of generation gap; it has been seen that in the Y generation, security/order, succeeding in hard tasks/defying and lifestyle have positive effects on career satisfaction, whereas entrepreneurship/creativeness affect it in the negative way. In the X generation however, it is seen that only security/order and lifestyle have positive effects on career satisfaction.