Negative word-of-mouth and applicant attraction: The role of employer brand equity
Publication date: Available online 17 December 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Sara Stockman, Greet Van Hoye, Serge da Motta VeigaAbstractWord-of-mouth (WOM) is a valued source of employment information for job seekers. Given mixed prior research findings, we do not yet understand when and why negative WOM affects applicant decision-making. Building on signaling theory and brand equity literature, we propose that the strength of the negative signal provided by negative WOM varies depending on applicants' knowledge of an employer and its image and reputation, conceptualized as employer brand equity. Fir...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 18, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Seeking an “i-deal” balance: Schedule-flexibility i-deals as mediating mechanisms between supervisor emotional support and employee work and home performance
This study provides valuable insights into the nomological network of schedule-flexibility i-deals by drawing on the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory. We propose that, via resource accumulation, schedule-flexibility i-deals are a mechanism through which the emotional support of supervisors promotes employees' family performance and reduces deviant work behaviors. Drawing further on the COR framework, we examine two boundary conditions that guide employees' resource investment: perception of family-friendly environment and prosocial motivation. We collected multi-source data from employees working in South America and...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Who lower their aspirations? The development and protective factors of college-associated career aspirations in adolescence
Publication date: Available online 13 December 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Yannan Gao, Jacquelynne EcclesAbstractHaving college-associated career aspirations has long-term implications for adolescents' education and career attainment. However, important precursors of adolescents' career aspirations, such as academic motivation and performance, decline during middle school and high school, leaving college-associated career aspirations at risk. In our study, we investigated the changes in adolescents' college-related career aspirations from 7th to 11th grade and examined protective factors for negati...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Why do millennials stay in their jobs? The roles of protean career orientation, goal progress and organizational career management
Publication date: Available online 5 December 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Claudia Holtschlag, Aline Masuda, B. Sebastian Reiche, Carlos MoralesAbstractIn this paper we report a time-lagged study over six months analyzing the indirect effect of protean career orientation on changes in turnover intentions via personal work goal progress in a sample of millennial employees. Consistent with protean career theory and social exchange theory, we found that protean career orientation indirectly leads to decreases in turnover intentions over time and this effect was moderated by organizational career manage...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - December 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Testing the structure of the Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire across country, gender, age, and decision status
Publication date: Available online 19 November 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Nimrod Levin, Hedva Braunstein-Bercovitz, Yuliya Lipshits-Braziler, Itamar Gati, Jérôme RossierAbstractMany individuals face difficulties when making a career decision. Gati, Krausz, and Osipow (1996) proposed a taxonomy that classifies career decision-making difficulties into three major clusters, which are further subdivided into 10 categories. Based on the proposed taxonomy, they developed the Career Decision-making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ), which has been since adopted and used in>50 countries. Despite its wid...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 115Author(s): (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Publication date: December 2019Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 115Author(s): (Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior)
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 14, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Introduction to the special issue: A cross-cultural exploration of decent work
Publication date: Available online 5 November 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Ryan D. Duffy, David L. Blustein, Blake A. Allan, Matthew M. Diemer, Rachel G. CinamonAbstractThe current special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior focuses on an exploration of decent work in different national contexts. Specifically, the special issue consists of eight papers written by research teams from eight different countries. In each article, researchers developed a reliable instrument to assess decent work with clear evidence of validity within the particular cultural and national context. In addition to th...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - November 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
A programmatic intervention to promote entrepreneurial self-efficacy, critical behavior, and technology readiness among underrepresented college students
Publication date: Available online 23 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Germán Cadenas, Elizabeth Angélica Cantú, Nathalie Lynn, Tameka Spence, Alissa RuthAbstractUnderrepresented students face challenges in accessing entrepreneurial education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. In attempts to address this deficit, a five-week social entrepreneurship program (named Poder) with a focus on technology was implemented at one of the largest community college systems in the U.S. Conceptually, the program curriculum was grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory and Criti...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Voluntary occupational turnover and the experiences of former intercollegiate women assistant coaches
Publication date: Available online 22 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Lindsey DarvinAbstractWomen remain underrepresented in positions of leadership throughout the sport industry. This underrepresentation has been previously linked to a leaking pipeline of successful female candidates and over the past five years the proportion of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women assistant coaches has declined. Subsequently, occupational turnover intentions of women assistant coaches have been found to exceed those of their male counterparts. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to exam...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 23, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Driving a career in Tehran: Experiences of female internet taxi drivers
Publication date: Available online 20 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Mina Beigi, Shahrzad Nayyeri, Melika ShirmohammadiAbstractThis qualitative study, explores the career experiences of 34 female internet taxi drivers (FTDs) in Tehran, the capital city of Iran—a developing Muslim-dominant country—and responds to the call for international and contextual perspectives on careers. We adopt the intelligent career framework and the institutional logics perspective to understand the FTDs' career given their institutional context. First, we shed light on why (i.e., financial needs, flexibility, p...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Challenges and difficulties in career decision making: Their causes, and their effects on the process and the decision
Publication date: Available online 20 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Viktoria Kulcsar, Anca Dobrean, Itamar GatiAbstractIndividuals are challenged by increasingly more career transitions in the 21st century. Each of these transitions entails making a career decision, typically by locating promising alternatives, collecting information about them, comparing the alternatives on the short list and choosing one. Finding the areas where individuals are experiencing difficulties in this process is important for helping them and facilitating their career decision making. The goal of the present revie...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Is there a price telecommuters pay? Examining the relationship between telecommuting and objective career success
Publication date: Available online 20 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Timothy D. Golden, Kimberly A. EddlestonAbstractTelecommuting has long been noted for its ability to foster work-family balance and job satisfaction. However, for employees seeking to advance in their careers, it is commonly advised to exercise caution, since telecommuting is often viewed as signaling a lack of dedication to one's career. Despite the prevalence of such advice, almost no research has investigated if telecommuting actually impacts career success in objective terms. Integrating research on the flexibility stigma...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Decent work in France: Context, conceptualization, and assessment
Publication date: Available online 20 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Emmanuelle Vignoli, Nathalie Prudhomme, Katia Terriot, Valérie Cohen-Scali, Caroline Arnoux-Nicolas, Jean-Luc Bernaud, Noëlle LallemandAbstractThe first aim of this study was to validate a French version of the Decent Work Scale (DWS) proposed by Duffy, Allan, Blustein, England, Douglass, Ferreira, and Santos (2017). Our second aim was to gain insight into French people's representations of decent work using a qualitative approach. A representative sample of 300 French employees completed the DWS, as well as measures of lif...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Protean career orientation: Behavioral antecedents and employability outcomes
Publication date: Available online 5 October 2019Source: Journal of Vocational BehaviorAuthor(s): Laura Cortellazzo, Sara Bonesso, Fabrizio GerliAbstractThe contemporary unstable business environment is challenging the concept of the “traditional” career in an organization, in favor of a protean career attitude in which individuals are characterized as having a strong sense of identity and personal values that guide their career decisions. Despite the relevance of the protean career concept, empirical research has provided limited evidence on its antecedents and outcomes as regards individuals who are at an early stage...
Source: Journal of Vocational Behavior - October 6, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
