Supervisor career future time perspective and employee career commitment: the roles of team goal orientation and knowledge sharing

Purpose To extend the career commitment literature, we theorize and investigate how and when supervisor career future time perspective shapes employee career commitment. Design/methodology/approach To test our assumptions, we examined these relationships through a multi-wave survey of 261 supervisor-subordinate dyads. Findings Supervisor career future time perspective positively impacted employee career commitment through team learning goal orientation and team performance goal orientation. Further, team knowledge sharing served as a crucial boundary condition that strengthened the effect of supervisor career future time perspective on employee career commitment via team performance goal orientation. Originality/value This study expands the understanding of employee career commitment by developing a comprehensive model that addresses how and when supervisor career future time perspective shapes employee career commitment. Furthermore, our study introduces team goal orientation as the key mechanism and team knowledge sharing as the crucial boundary condition that bridges the linkages and thoroughly investigates the motivational effects of supervisors’ career-related orientation on employee outcomes.