THE CAREER SUCCESS EXPECTATIONS SCALE - AN EXPLORATORY AND CONFIRMATORY FACTOR-ANALYSIS

In the present study, the development of the Career Success Expectatio ns Scale (CSES), and its application to two different significant care er transitions, is described. Two independent samples (161 managers in expatriate work assignments and 103 managers obtaining an MBA degree) were employed in conducting, first, an exploratory (orthogonal and ob lique rotations) analysis, and second, a confirmatory analysis of the factor structure of the instrument. The three-factor structure that em erged in the exploratory factor analysis was confirmed with structural equation modeling techniques in the second phase of the study.