Download or read book Antecedents of Career Goals and Their Implications for Career Success Across Contexts written by Claudia Holtschlag and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I contribute to the literature that addresses why some people are more successful in their careers than others. Within this stream of research, scholars have increasingly examined the predictors of career success (Ng, Eby, Sorensen, & Feldman, 2005). Despite their relevance in career theorizing, little is known, however, about how career goals affect individuals' objective and subjective career success. Whereas objective career success refers to tangible indicators of career success such as status and salary, subjective career success makes reference to affective and attitudinal criteria like job and career satisfaction or turnover intentions (e.g., Allen, Eby, Poteet, Lentz, & Lima, 2004). In this thesis, I examine how and when career goals relate to career success. Overall, I aimed to answer in this dissertation 1) whether career goals predict career success, 2) when they matter most for understanding career success, and 3) whether they mediate the relationship between personality traits and career success. These three research objectives are addressed in three related empirical studies. In the first study, I draw on goal-setting theory (Locke & Latham, 1990a) to examine whether individuals with difficult and specific long-term career goals (i.e., career visions) are more likely to be satisfied with their jobs seven years later. For this purpose, I analyzed data of a time-lagged study with 74 MBA alumni. Confirming hypothesis of goal-setting theory, people with specific and difficult long-term career goals were more satisfied with their jobs seven years later, which explained why they reported fewer intentions to leave their jobs. In the second study, I aimed to advance these findings by testing whether people with abstract ambition goals (i.e., self-enhancement values, Schwartz values theory, 1992) are also more likely to attain objective career success. Results from a cross- cultural study sampling approximately 35,000 participants across 29 countries show that ambition goals are positively associated with hierarchical status. In line with the tenet of the trait-activation theory (Tett & Burnett, 2003; Tett & Guterman, 2000) that "strong situations" limit the influence of individual differences, the study's finding indicate that the relationship between ambition goals and hierarchical status is most pronounced in "weak" situations, specifically in countries that do not highly encourage and reward ambition related behavior. On the contrary in countries with "strong" ambition cues, individuals' ambition goals no longer explain who makes it to the top. In the third study, I continued examining the boundary conditions of the relationship between career goals and career success. Specifically, I examined how the occupational context alters the relevance of short-term career goals for explaining career satisfaction. Based on self-verification theory (Swann, 1983), I hypothesized that positive goal emotions mediate the relationship between the personality trait of core self-evaluations (Judge, Locke, & Durham, 1997) and career satisfaction. Relying on the situational strength framework (Meyer, Dalal, & Hermida, 2010; Mischel, 1973), I expected that the relationship between positive goal emotions and career satisfaction is most pronounced when individuals are not highly embedded in their occupations. Results of a time-lagged study over 10 months with three measurement waves including responses from 140 MBA alumni support the hypothesized moderated mediation model. Core self-evaluations are both directly and indirectly related to career satisfaction through positive goal emotions. This indirect effect is moderated by occupational embeddedness such that a high level of occupational embeddedness substitutes positive goal emotions. Taken together, these three empirical studies discuss the antecedents, boundary conditions, and implications of career goals for individuals' career success, providing important contributions to the careers and personal goals literatures. Specifically, the findings presented in this dissertation suggest that people who pursue ambitious, challenging, specific, and emotionally positive career goals are more likely to be successful in their careers. The results furthermore indicate that the appraisals of career goals can partly channel the effects of personality traits on career success. Although all three studies point to the benefits of pursuing career goals, the results of this dissertation also suggest that career goals are not equally relevant across contexts for understanding career success. In this sense, certain cultural and occupational contexts can alter the importance of career goal contents and appraisals, leaving career goals either important or negligible for predicting career success.
Download or read book Handbook of Psychology Industrial and Organizational Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.
Download or read book Career Adaptability written by Mark Savickas and published by Mark L. Savickas. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic book that reports research on the psychology of career adaptability
Download or read book Work Motivation written by Ruth Kanfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume in SIOP's Organizational Frontiers Series presents the current thinking and research on the important area of motivation.Work Motivation is a central issue in Industrial organizational psychology, human resource management and organizational behavior. In this volume the editors and authors show that motivation must be seen as a m
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Career Studies written by Hugh Gunz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Career Studies is an in-depth reference for researchers, students, and practitioners looking for a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of career studies. Split into five parts, the volume looks at major areas of research within career studies and reflects on the latest developments in the areas of theory, empirical studies, and methodology. The book's five parts cover (1) major theoretical and methodological debates and approaches to studying careers; (2) careers as dynamic, ongoing processes covering such issues as time, shaping careers, career outcomes and patterns, and the forces shaping careers; (3) the local, national, and global context of careers, (4) implementing career research to design practical interventions in areas such as education, counseling, and national policy; and (5) a commentary on the current state of career scholarship and its future development as represented in this volume, by founding scholars in the field. This book will be a sourcebook for scholars studying careers, research students intending to take up the study of careers, and anyone – scholars and practitioners – with an interest not only in understanding careers, the factors shaping them and where they lead, but also in how this understanding might be used in practice.
Download or read book Career Theory and Practice written by Jane L. Swanson and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help readers apply career development theories to their work with career counseling clients, Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies links major career development and choice theories to a fictional case client. Authors Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad use this case study approach throughout the book to provide an integrative thread that illustrates similarities and differences between the featured theories. The Third Edition has been updated and substantially expanded to be a primary text for a graduate course in Career Development and Counseling. “Jane L. Swanson and Nadya A. Fouad do a masterful job of bringing theory to life through the lived stories of actual career clients. I very much appreciated the book’s format, the examples, the discussion questions, and the richly developed case examples.” —Mary J. Heppner, University of Missouri, Columbia, commenting on the First Edition “The case study method is very effective. Students can see firsthand how the theories are interpreted and applied. Often they get a better understanding of their own lives and career history.” —Anne Zachmeyer, Rochester Institute of Technology “Theory discussion is complete and usable for students; the quality of the text is strong.” —Meredith J. Drew, Centenary College
Download or read book The Boundaryless Career written by Michael Bernard Arthur and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which people's work careers are changing as the organizations in which they work change. The old concept of the firm as a self-contained entity interacting with its customers has been replaced by the reality of firms whose boundaries have given way to new alliances with suppliers and other outside organizations.
Download or read book Work Related Learning written by Jan N. Streumer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-14 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work-related learning can be broadly seen to be concerned with all forms of education and training closely related to the daily work of (new) employees, and is increasingly playing a central role in the lives of individuals, groups or teams and the agenda’s of organizations. However, as this area of study becomes more prominent, debates have opened about the nature of the field, as well as about its configurations and effects. For example, some authors have a broad definition of WRL and define it as learning for work, at work and through work, ranging from formal, through semi-structured to informal learning. Others prefer to use the concept of WRL mainly in connection to informal, incidental learning processes during work, leading to competent workplace learners. Formal and informal learning are distinguished from each other with respect to the level of intention (implicit/non-intentional/incidental versus deliberative/intentional/structured). Another point of discussion originates from the different ‘theoretical backgrounds’ of the authors: the ‘learning theorists’ versus the ‘organizational theorists’. The first group is mainly interested in the question of how learning comes about; the second group is predominantly interested in the search for factors affecting learning.
Download or read book Career Theory and Practice Learning Through Case Studies written by Jane L. Swanson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Career Theory and Practice: Learning Through Case Studies, Second Edition, provides the reader with hands-on, practical examples of how to apply career development theories to career counseling clients. This book serves as that bridge between theory and practice. Woven through the chapters is the presentation of 'Leslie,' a fictitious client, actually the composite portrait of several past clients. As each chapter focuses on a different career development theory and presents specific cases, the authors enhance the practical slant of their work by applying the theories discussed to 'Leslie,' as well as to a second case unique to each chapter. The second edition includes a new chapter highlighting the importance of various types of assessment in career counseling, and addressing the role of ethics and professional issues. In addition, new pedagogical features include 'Counselor Cognitions' to guide hypotheses about clients, and 'Personal Reflections' to facilitate the application of material to studentsÆ own career development. The second edition also includes added material that highlights the role of the economy and the changing nature of the workforce that influence the career and work decisions individuals make. Swanson and Fouad bring their own experiences as practitioners, researchers, and teachers in their approach to writing this new edition. This book is intended for students in graduate level career or vocational psychology or career practicum courses as well as counseling practitioners needing additional resources to strengthen their services or expand their focus.
Download or read book Must Success Cost So Much written by Paul Evans and published by . This book was released on 1981-06-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New methodological intervention and neuroscientific perspectives in sports psychology written by Antonio Hernández-Mendo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Counseling Psychology written by Elizabeth M. Altmaier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized experts in theory, research, and practice review and analyze historical achievements in research and practice from counseling psychology as well as outline exciting agendas for the near-future for the newest domains of proficiencies and expertise.
Download or read book Careers around the World written by Jon P. Briscoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies are becoming more global and international, and commerce and information flow seamlessly across national borders. In addition, modernization, rapid technological change, an increasingly (shared) global culture, and shifting socio-demographic values have created conditions in which career stability is more threatened, while the importance of managing the career well is paramount. But, what do we know about careers in different contexts and how those career experiences vary in different regions and countries of the world? The goal of this book is to develop new understandings of career from the vantage point of those who live in diverse cultures, and who belong to different generations. Careers Around the World explores the very meaning of what a career for individuals is in different countries, cultures, professions and age groups. What does career success mean for people around the world? What are key career transitions, and how are they best managed in different cultures? As those questions have not yet been investigated in the literature of careers across cultures and generations, the authors have taken an approach that led to hearing the answers directly from working people around the globe. This book presents the answers to these questions from each of the seven major cultural regions of the world and the practical implications of these differences for those who manage human resources in organizations that cross national boundaries, as well as those who advise on careers.
Download or read book Career Development and Counseling written by Steven D. Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover comprehensive coverage of leading research and theory in career psychology with the newest edition of a canonical work The newly revised and thoroughly updated third edition of Career Development and Counseling retains many features of the celebrated second edition, including in-depth coverage of major theories of career development, interventions and assessment systems across the life span, and the roles of diversity, individual differences, and social factors in career development. This new edition also covers essential new material on emerging topics like: The future of work and preparing people for work in the new economy The psychology of working theory Working with older adults and retirees Working with the unemployed and underemployed Calling, work meaning, career adaptability, and volition This book illuminates scientifically informed career practices from an interdisciplinary perspective, engaging readers with concrete strategies and practical tips for working with clients of all kinds. Drawing on vocational, industrial, organizational, and personality psychology, Career Development and Counseling is ideal for graduate students at the masters and doctoral levels in counseling, counseling psychology, counselor education, and educational psychology.
Download or read book Teacher Emotions Matter Nature Antecedents and Effects written by Junjun Chen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Career Decision Making written by W. Bruce Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping up with new developments in vocational psychology is important to both psychological practitioners and researchers. This volume is devoted to presenting and evaluating important advances in the field of career decision making, development, and maturity. More specifically, it identifies, reports, and evaluates significant contemporary developments in vocational psychology and provides both professional workers and students with an informed understanding of the progress taking place in the field. The history and theory of the assessment of career development and decison making are explored as well as advances in career planning systems. An expanded context for the study and evaluation of career development variables is also described.
Download or read book Psychology of Career Adaptability Employability and Resilience written by Kobus Maree and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the career counselling profession should respond to the changes in the world of work that have resulted from the increasing need to communicate faster and disseminate information more efficiently. It emphasizes the twin aims of enhancing a persons’ career adaptability and helping them to become more employable, rather than linearly trying to find a job and remaining in one organisation for their entire career-lives. The book shows that, to achieve these aims, people need to acquire career resilience, especially since the world of work no longer provides workers with work-holding environments for the duration of their career-lives. It takes into account historical analyses which show that whenever major technological change has occurred and widespread job losses have ensued, people have managed to use the new technology to create new employment opportunities. Readers from career psychology and management research, vocational and professional career coaching, and students of career psychology will find this book delivers sound, updated theory demonstrating how perceived threats in the 21st century can conceivably be turned into opportunities.
