The purpose of this research is to investigate the career
orientations of educated and urban Indonesian women business executives
following Darr's (1988) success mop. While research an women business
executives and their career orientation is extensive in developed countries,
such research is scarce, if not none at all, in Indonesia. The country 's
society still holds deeply rooted beliefs' regarding the role of women at
home and in the workplace. Such special pressure could make difficult for
an Indonesian women to choose a career instead of a family, or to
successfully combine these two important pillars of her modern iU`e. This
study investigated five research questions on the career success
orientations of the Indonesian women business executives with i0 non-
directional null hypotheses on a sample representation of 93 of these
women. The findings ore that the majority of the respondents are oriented
to 'Getting balance '. This is a career success orientation concerned with
maintaining the balance between home, work and personal development.
Careers as lived by their respondents in this study, therefore, may be
removed from the ideals portrayed in management career literature; in
other words these respondents show 'no career' concerns for advancement
in the corporate board-room.
