Showing papers in "Journal of Vocational Behavior in 2003"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relation between work-family balance and quality of life among professionals employed in public accounting and found that those who invested substantial time in their combined work and family roles, those who spent more time on family than work experienced a higher quality-of-life than balanced individuals.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study among 214 nutrition production employees uses the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model to predict future company registered absenteeism, and the results of structural equation modeling analyses show that job demands are unique predictors of burnout (i.e., exhaustion and cynicism) and indirectly of absence duration.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analytic review of 21 studies on relations of person-organization fit with job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to turnover was presented, and four specific moderators were investigated: the type of fit measure, method of calculating fit, dimensions of fit, and use of an established measure of person -organisation fit.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared how three work venues (traditional office, n =4316, virtual office and home office) may influence aspects of work (job performance, job motivation, job retention, workload success, and career opportunity) and personal/family life.

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between the three components of organizational commitment and performance, defined as in-role performance and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), using a sample of 253 supervisor-subordinate dyads from the People's Republic of China.

TL;DR: In this article, a typology of mentoring based on the computer mediated communication (CMC) literature is presented, and the authors suggest new opportunities and challenges, and provide recommendations for researchers and practitioners to explore online mentoring.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed conservation of resources (CORs) theory to propose and test relationships between resources possessed by employees, their coping strategies, and emotional exhaustion, and found that resource levels were positively associated with the use of active coping strategies (i.e., positive orientation, working harder, and seeking advice and assistance) and negatively associated with avoidance.

TL;DR: The relationship between negative affectivity, Type A, and the Big Five personality variables with both the form and direction of work-family conflict (WFC) was examined in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating potential of perceived organizational support on politics perceptions was investigated, and it was found that perceived support was related to job satisfaction, performance, affective commitment and job-induced tension providing support for mediation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated to what extent Work-Home Interference mediated the relationship between workload and two indicators of well-being, that is, (a) affective wellbeing (i.e., work-related negative affect and depressive mood) and (b) subjective health complaints).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether academic self-efficacy beliefs and grades in school at the ages of 12-15 would be associated with unemployment and job satisfaction at the age of 21.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the learning goal orientation of mentors and proteges as it relates to proteges' mentoring functions received and outcomes (i.e., managerial career aspirations and career satisfaction).

TL;DR: The authors identified five intervention ingredients that were individually associated with career choice outcome, and collectively were linearly related to increases in career choice effect sizes, and presented some hypotheses to define each of the critical ingredients and suggest how they might be implemented to maximize their effectiveness.

TL;DR: This article examined the construct validity of Meyer and Allen's (1991) three-component model of organizational commitment in a Chinese context and compared levels of OC between the Chinese sample and previously published data from Canada and South Korea.

TL;DR: This article examined how college women's valuing of graduate education predicted their intentions to attend graduate school, using a new measure of the valuing in graduate school. But they did not find that women were strongly career-oriented, and their orientations to career related positively to their valuing on graduate education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the relationship among recruitment web site orientation, individuals' expectations concerning the use of Internet technology, web site usability, and organizational attractiveness, and found that web sites orientation and outcome expectancy influenced organizational attractiveness perceptions through influencing the perceived usability of the website.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested several hypotheses emanating from social cognitive career theory (SCCT) and found general support for the hypotheses that self-efficacy and outcome expectations jointly predict interests, and that interests mediate the relations of selfefficacy, outcome expectations, interests, social supports and barriers, and choice consideration.

TL;DR: The Newcomer Socialization Questionnaire (NSQ) as discussed by the authors measures three dimensions or domains of newcomer socialization: the organization, the group and the job/task, and both factual knowledge and knowledge of expected role behaviors are assessed within each domain.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis involved the direct comparison of treatment modalities used in career interventions, and interventions that did not involve a counselor were found to be less effective than other modalities.

TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analytic review of 60 empirical independent samples (N =39,154) in which relations between self-efficacy and interests had been examined, including parallel measures of the constructs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine how HR professionals handle HR information as well as the expectations placed on them resulting from an increased reliance on IT, and suggest that IT enables HR professionals to more efficiently access and disseminate information while it also influences what is expected of them.

TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship of stereotype threat to feedback seeking and feedback acceptance in a sample of 166 African American managers and found that solo status in the work group predicted perceptions of stereotype threats.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine potential reasons why career counseling process research has been infrequently conducted and provide 10 avenues from psychotherapy process research, and the limited pool of existing career counseling processes research, that hold promise for advancing a productive process-research agenda in career counseling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated telework and virtual team innovations drawing upon commitment, information richness, and cognitive style (mental self-government) theory, and found that certain combinations of cognitive styles and media contribute to commitment to the telework function and to virtual teams.

TL;DR: In this paper, three factors of indecision are derived from decision theory: being insufficiently informed about the alternatives, valuation problems, and uncertainty about the outcomes, and the three factors are studied in high school students career decision process of choosing further studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore factors associated with employees ability to cope with the challenges of telecommuting, an increasingly pervasive new work mode enabled by advances in information technologies, and find that there is a positive association between telecommuter self-efficacy and both employees behavioral strategies (i.e., structuring behaviors) and work outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined correlates of bridge employment participation using a sample of 133 early retirees from an oil and gas services firm and found that organizational tenure, certainty of retirement plans, and career-related pull factors accounted for a significant portion of the variance in overall participation in bridge employment after controlling for the effects of age, gender, and marital status.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the utility of the Theory of Planned Behavior, augmented by the addition of a past behavior variable, in predicting information-seeking behavior in a school pupil sample.

TL;DR: A longitudinal study was conducted among 93 nurses to determine the role of comparing one's performance with that of one's colleagues in the increase versus decrease of perceived relative deprivation at work over a period of one year as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested the hypothesis that the relationship between conscientiousness and job performance is mediated by resource allocation strategies specific to a meta-theory called selective optimization with compensation (SOC).