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Career exploration and goal setting among managerial employees
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In this paper, career exploration and goal-setting among 257 managers in a large communications company were examined, and high work role salience and the perceived availability of mobility opportunities were associated with extensive participation in career exploration.About:
This article is published in Journal of Vocational Behavior.The article was published on 1986-08-01. It has received 60 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Goal orientation & Goal setting.read more
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Job Loss as a Blessing in Disguise: The Role of Career Exploration and Career Planning in Predicting Reemployment Quality.
Jelena Zikic,Ute-Christine Klehe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address potential positive outcomes of job loss by focusing on specific career adaptability activities that individuals can undertake to obtain these outcomes, such as self and environmental career exploration and career planning.
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Is career management related to employee development and performance
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between different aspects of the career management process and employee development behavior and performance was examined in a study, where employees provided information concerning their personal characteristics, career management strategies, their manager's support for career development, and willingness to participate in development activities.
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The role of goal instability and career self-efficacy in the career exploration process
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the relevant career development and human motivation literatures suggested that goal-directedness and career self-efficacy beliefs would be predictive of environmental and self-exploration.
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An investigation of the correlates of career motivation
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance that individuals placed on work and career, and perceptions regarding the presence of motivating job characteristics, were significantly related to all three aspects of career motivation, and significant relationships were also found between managerial support, career stage, distance from career goal, and the match between individual and organizational career goals.
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Work and Family Influences on Departure from Public Accounting
TL;DR: The authors examined work and family influences on the decision to leave the field of public accounting and found that women were more likely than men to leave public accounting, and the reason for the sex difference in departure rate was not because women experienced greater family pressures than men, but rather women had less of a desire to be promoted to partner than men.
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Test anxiety and direction of attention.
TL;DR: The literature reviewed suggests an attentional interpretation, of the adverse effects which test anxiety has on task performance, that highly anxious persons are generally more self-preoccupied than are people low in anxiety.
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An investigation of the role of career salience in vocational behavior
TL;DR: The role of career salience (or the perceived importance of work and a career) in occupational choice and occupational satisfaction was investigated and the first hypothesis was supported for males, and the second hypothesis received no support.
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Individual Exploration to Organizational Commitment or Withdrawal
Stephen A. Stumpf,Karen Hartman +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the organizational commitment or withdrawal process was investigated for a sample of 85 individuals using a longitudinal research design and path analysis for career exploration activity two months prior to their departure.
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Managing the Career Plateau
TL;DR: In this paper, a general dynamic model of managerial careers is presented based on interviews with managers in nine major organizations, and some key issues associated with the career plateau are isolated and suggestions for managing the plateau process are offered.