Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore what organizations can do to facilitate the retention and advancement of women professionals into top leadership positions. A social exchange framework is applied to examine ways organizations can signal support for and investment in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine an initial set of characteristics and traits that may reduce officer recruitment turnover by increasing a cadet’s decision to contract vs those that do not contract (contracting represents a written commitment to commission into an US Armed...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the significance of transformational leadership and social support for expatriate adjustment and performance. This study also extends relevant literature on expatriate management to examine the relationships among transformational leadership, social...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine why and when followers of transformational leaders exhibit increased affective organizational commitment. Particularly, the authors examined the role played by perceived organizational support (POS) and supervisor’s organizational embodiment...

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...