Engineers are fast-track individuals who have special knowledge and expertise.
They have great expectations and ambitions for their career (Malan, 2004).
Engineers are also known to be energetic in climbing their career ladder and
strive for their psychological success. However, the conflict between having
their own goals and expectation with advancement opportunities, work
autonomy and work demand structured by the organization have influenced the
well-being of the engineers. As a result, Malaysian statistics of Human Resource
Department indicated that the performance of engineers has shown a drop . This
scenario would become worse if less attention is given to research on the
engineer’s individual well-being. Thus, it is a timely to conduct study in
accessing the level of individual well-being among Malaysian engineers, with
career goal development as the predictor. A total of 387 registered professional
engineers participated in this study. The hypotheses were investigated through a
correlation and path analysis using PLS. The results provide useful information
on the positive influence of protean career orientation on psychological wellbeing.
The results further had shown a positive influence of career goal
development on individual well-being. The implications of these findings for
understanding the process through of career attitude that affects individuals’
individual well-being are discussed.
