Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of motivation to work in explaining workers’ pay flexibility – as measured by their reservation wage ratio – across the lifespan. This is important since pay inflexibility may undermine mature age workers’ retention at the...

Purpose The aging workforce is becoming an increasingly important topic in today’s labor market. However, most scientific research and organizational policies focus on chronological age as the main determinant of successful aging. Based on life span developmental theories – primarily...

This article examines a parsimonious model that specifies the effects of job involvement and career commitment on learning motivation and learning transfer, using structural equation modelling. The “best fitting” model is achieved because it has surpassed all the goodness‐of‐fit indices...

This article addresses the integration of junior scientists and technologists in industry and reports some of the findings of a major survey conducted in Portugal in a large sample of doctoral students and newly graduated PhDs. The article aims to identify career prospects and assess the extent...

This study is based on the premise that, as organizations gain experience in the international marketplace, the determinants of job satisfaction for expatriate managers will vary. It is hypothesized that significant learning, manifested in firm international experience, will moderate the effects...

In today’s hyper‐competitive markets, the most valuable asset and the primary source of competitive advantage is human capital. It is also the resource which is most difficult to maintain, for the ongoing war for talent depletes the human capital of companies that fail to meet their employee...

One‐third of employees plan to resign from their jobs within the next two years, according to a new international report, The Retention Dilemma , by Hay Group. However, with economists forecasting a downturn, this is not good news for companies struggling to stay successful. This article...

The international trend toward organizations emphasizing adaptability and change throughout careers suggests that research should examine the development of employees into later career stages. Role models have been seen as critical to individuals’ skill and identity development, but have only...

The main purpose of this research is to explore the differences in satisfaction dimensions between the academic and administrative employees in higher education institutions in a developing country, Turkey. In this research, a state university in Istanbul was selected as the case. A total of 291...

This study set to explore the career needs and proposes the concept of the gap between career development programs and career needs, and its subsequent effect on job satisfaction, turnover intention, in an effort to contribute to the field of career management, through the effective integration...