Implications of materialistic values on career satisfaction among corporate executives

This paper was designed to study the existence of materialistic values, relationship between materialistic values and career satisfaction among corporate executives, and relationship among sub-scales of materialistic values. Scope of study covered executives from three organizations (One each from telecommunication, information technology, business process outsourcing industry). The sample comprised of total 90 executives. Sample was further divided into thirty executives each from three organizations. The results showed the strong influence and existence of materialistic values among the corporate executives as respondents agreed that one of most important achievement in life is to acquire material possessions. Mean scores of career satisfaction had shown moderate level of satisfaction among executives. Correlation analysis had shown negative correlation between materialistic values and career satisfaction i.e. more the existence of materialistic values, less the career satisfaction. Study revealed that a person, who is materialistic by nature, doesn't easily get satisfied as he/she has strong desire to get more and more.