Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour
Maike Andresen,Eleni Apospori,Hugh Gunz,Pamela Agata Suzanne,Mami Taniguchi,Evgenia I. Lysova,Ifedapo Adeleye,Olusegun Babalola,Silvia Bagdadli,Rhoda Bakuwa,Biljana Bogicevic Milikic,Janine Bosak,Jon P. Briscoe,Jongseok Cha,Katharina Chudzikowski,Richard D. Cotton,Silvia Dello Russo,Michael Dickmann,Nicky Dries,Anders Dysvik,Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart,Zhangfeng Fei,Sonia Ferencikova,Martina Gianecchini,Martin Gubler,Denisa Hackett,Douglas T. Hall,Denise M. Jepsen,Kadriye Övgü Çakmak‐Otluoğlu,Robert Kaše,Svetlana N. Khapova,Najung Kim,Mila Lazarova,Philip Lehmann,Sergio Madero,Debbie Mandel,Wolfgang Mayrhofer,Sushanta Kumar Mishra,Chikae Naito,Ana Nikodijevic,Emma Parry,Astrid Reichel,Paula Liliana Rozo Posada,Noreen Saher,Richa Saxena,Nanni Schleicher,Yan Shen,Florian Schramm,Adam Smale,Julie Unite,Marijke Verbruggen,Jelena Zikic +51 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In this paper, a survey of 17,986 employees from 27 countries, covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters, and national statistical data was used to examine the relationship between societal context and actors' career goals (career mesostructure) and career behaviour (actions).Abstract:
Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisational‐level variables, we provide insights into how career goals and behaviours are understood and embedded in the more distal societal context. More specifically, we operationalise societal context using the career‐related human potential composite and aim to understand if and why career goals and behaviours vary between countries. Drawing on a model of career structuration and using multilevel mediation modelling, we draw on a survey of 17,986 employees from 27 countries, covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters, and national statistical data to examine the relationship between societal context (macrostructure building the career‐opportunity structure) and actors' career goals (career mesostructure) and career behaviour (actions). We show that societal context in terms of societies' career‐related human potential composite is negatively associated with the importance given to financial achievements as a specific career mesostructure in a society that is positively related to individuals' proactive career behaviour. Our career mesostructure fully mediates the relationship between societal context and individuals' proactive career behaviour. In this way, we expand career theory's scope beyond occupation‐ and organisation‐related factors.read more
Citations
More filters
human Development Index
TL;DR: The 2013 Human Development Index (HDI) as discussed by the authors covers 187 countries, the same number of countries as in 2012 and 2011, and is used to assess the human development of a country.
Book ChapterDOI
Income Inequality : Understanding the Needs of Economically Disadvantaged Children and Families
TL;DR: The Gini coefficient as discussed by the authors is a more complete measure of income inequality, considering the entire income distribution, and it indicates that income inequality is rising overall, and that the increasing disparity of income in the U.S. over the past 30 years results from skill-biased technological change that has benefited higher-skilled workers.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Goal constructs in psychology: Structure, process, and content.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development
TL;DR: Socioemotional selectivity theory maintains that constraints on time horizons shift motivational priorities in such a way that the regulation of emotional states becomes more important than other types of goals.
Journal ArticleDOI
Need Satisfaction, Motivation, and Well-Being in the Work Organizations of a Former Eastern Bloc Country: A Cross-Cultural Study of Self-Determination
Edward L. Deci,Richard M. Ryan,Marylène Gagné,Dean R. Leone,Julian Usunov,Boyanka P. Kornazheva +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied employees of state-owned companies in Bulgaria, a country that has traditionally had a central-planning economy, a totalitarian political system, and collectivist values.
Journal ArticleDOI
Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Methods for Valuing Environmental Amenities
TL;DR: In this paper, a stated preference model and a revealed preference model for recreational site choice are examined and compared, and the results show that while independently estimated models appear to reflect different underlying preferences, joint estimation of model parameters, including estimation of the relative scale parameter, provides evidence that the underlying preferences are in fact similar.
Journal ArticleDOI
What do proactive people do? a longitudinal model linking proactive personality and career success
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a model linking proactive personality and career success through a set of four behavioral and cognitive mediators, and found that proactive personality measured at time 1 was positively related to innovation, political knowledge, and career initiative, but not voice; all measured at Time 2.
Related Papers (5)
Applications of social cognitive theory to the career development of women of color
Angela M. Byars,Gail Hackett +1 more