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
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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
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