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This e-book on careers in cross-cultural perspective contributes to the growing body of literature that addresses careers from different locations in the world, including countries far from the mainstream of careers research. It focuses on differences and similarities among careers and career...
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Purpose – This paper takes an institutional approach to identify cognitive, normative, and regulatory factors affecting women’s business leadership in an under-studied traditional society. The purpose of this paper is to assess how such forces work to create a case of female leadership...
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Purpose – Departing from the job demands resources model, the purpose of this paper is to investigate whether religion … question as to how job insecurity and religion interact in predicting burnout and change-oriented behavior. Design … organizational change. Findings – Results were largely consistent with the “religion as a demand” hypothesis: religion exacerbated …
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Purpose – Few research has addressed the factors that undermine people’s subjective perceptions of career success. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to further illuminate the issue of career barriers in perceptions of career success for a specific group of professionals: academics....
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Business expatriates from the Chinese mainland assigned to Hong Kong responded to a questionnaire regarding availability and usage of corporate career development activities. It was found that corporate development activities had a very low availability, indicating little interest on the part of...
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Women’s career development does not simply lag behind that of men, but may proceed in a completely different manner, and yet, to date, only a few career models attempt to incorporate women’s varying life experiences. Indeed, the traditional working pattern of education, full‐time career...
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This article explains the challenges faced when management‐practitioners decide to enter the academic environment and teach. The authors speak from the perspective of their own experiences with respect to transitions into the academic field and also highlight prominent literature on the...
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the personality and career expectations of business students. The sample consisted of 533 business students. Personality was administered using the F‐version (the Finnish research version) of the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator...
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The rise of all forms of information systems has been one of the major factors affecting the nature of work over the last decade. This article reports on research that suggests that whilst females may now gain more experience of computers and information systems at an earlier age, this does not...
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