5th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON KHAZAR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND INNOVATION
BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF STUDIES ON CAREERISM
One of the greatest needs and expectations of individuals in working life is career advancement. While traditional career approaches are dominated by the understanding that employees' career advancement is provided based on an organization; today, a modern understanding that includes employees' own career planning and development together with organizational support is dominant in career management. In this process, employees need to continuously develop their knowledge, skills and abilities. Their organizations need to clearly and explicitly determine career steps and make merit-based recruitments and promotions. Otherwise, employees may resort to different methods to achieve career advancement. At this point, the issue of careerism, which refers to employees' efforts to achieve career advancement through non-performance methods, comes to the fore. Employees with a tendency towards careerism try to continue their career advancement by resorting to unethical methods and with fake performances for show. In this study, it is aimed to contribute to the field by examining the studies on Careerism, which is a newly studied subject in the national literature, with a bibliometric analysis according to various parameters. In this direction, indicators such as the distribution of studies on careerism by years, type of study, research methods used, scales used, and topics studied together with the concept were used. As a result of the analysis, 18 studies consisting of articles and postgraduate theses related to the concept of Careerism were examined. 2 of these studies were doctoral theses, 7 were master's theses and 9 were article research. It was determined that studies on careerism began to be studied in the national literature as of 2018, the most studies were conducted in 2019, 2021 and 2022 and the sample group was diverse. It was determined that careerism was associated with issues such as performance, leadership, personality traits, work dedication, counterproductive work behaviors and impression management.
