Social Capital and Career Success of Civil Engineers towards Designing Career Paths

摘要

Achieving success in one's profession is a highly critical issue for the construction companies to survive in a competitive business environment. This descriptive study aimed to analyze the degree to which social capital predicted civil engineer career success towards a career development program. Career success was assumed compromise extrinsic (fringe benefits and promotion) and intrinsic (career satisfaction and job satisfaction) elements. The individual respondents were selected from the list Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers using purposive sampling. It utilized validated researcher-made questionnaire, unstructured interview, and documentary analysis as its data gathering instruments. The data gathered were treated using frequency and percentage count, weighted mean, correlation analysis and multiple regressions analysis. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels as probability basis for decision.