An empirical investigation on the relationship between parenting styles and employeesʹʹ career adaptability

he purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between parenting styles and employeesʹ career adaptability. The statistical population includes all employees in Polyacridʹs Factory of Isfahan in 2012. The proposed study selects a sample of 321 employees using cluster sampling. The study has used a based on Baumrindʹs theorem, which maintains three groups of permissive, authoritarian and authoritative in Likert scale. The results of our study have indicated that there is definitely a difference in parenting style among various members in terms of career concern, career curiosity and career confidence but such relationship does not exists in terms of career control. In addition, the study explains that people with permissive parenting style have less career concern, career curiosity and career confidence than those with permissive parenting style do.