Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies’ career-related human potential and proactive career behavior

dc.contributor.authorAndresen, Maike
dc.contributor.authorApospori, Eleni
dc.contributor.authorGunz, Hugh
dc.contributor.authorSuzanne, Pamela Agata
dc.contributor.authorTaniguchi, Mami
dc.contributor.authorLysova, Evgenia I.
dc.contributor.authorAdeleye, Ifedapo
dc.contributor.authorBabalola, Olusegun
dc.contributor.authorBagdadli, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorBakuwa, Rhoda
dc.contributor.authorMilikić, Biljana Bogićević
dc.contributor.authorBosak, Janine
dc.contributor.authorBriscoe, Jon P.
dc.contributor.authorCha, Jong‐Seok
dc.contributor.authorChudzikowski, Katharina
dc.contributor.authorCotton, Richard
dc.contributor.authorDello Russo, Silvia
dc.contributor.authorDickmann, Michael
dc.contributor.authorDries, Nicky
dc.contributor.authorDysvik, Anders
dc.contributor.authorEggenhofer‐Rehart, Petra
dc.contributor.authorFei, Zhangfeng
dc.contributor.authorFerencikova, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorGianecchini, Martina
dc.contributor.authorGubler, Martin
dc.contributor.authorHackett, Denisa
dc.contributor.authorHall, Douglas T.
dc.contributor.authorJepsen, Denise
dc.contributor.authorÇakmak‐Otluoğlu, Kadriye Övgü
dc.contributor.authorKaše, Robert
dc.contributor.authorKhapova, Svetlana
dc.contributor.authorKim, Najung
dc.contributor.authorLazarova, Mila
dc.contributor.authorLehmann, Philip
dc.contributor.authorMadero, Sergio
dc.contributor.authorMayrhofer, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.authorKumar, Sushanta
dc.contributor.authorChikae, Mishra
dc.contributor.authorNikodijević, Naito Ana D.
dc.contributor.authorParry, Emma
dc.contributor.authorReichel, Astrid
dc.contributor.authorLiliana, Paula
dc.contributor.authorPosada, Rozo
dc.contributor.authorSaher, Noreen
dc.contributor.authorSaxena, Richa
dc.contributor.authorSchleicher, Nanni
dc.contributor.authorShen, Yan
dc.contributor.authorSchramm, Florian
dc.contributor.authorSmale, Adam
dc.contributor.authorUnite, Julie
dc.contributor.authorVerbruggen, Marijke
dc.contributor.authorZikic, Jelena
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-03T09:24:28Z
dc.date.available2019-12-03T09:24:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-11-12
dc.description.abstractCareers 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.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAndresen M, Aspori E, Gunz H, et al., (2020) Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies’ career-related human potential and proactive career behavior. Human Resource Management Journal, Volume 30, July 2020, pp. 365-391en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0954-5395
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12247
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/14788
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherWileyen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectcareer mesostructureden_UK
dc.subjectcareer-related human potentialen_UK
dc.subjectcareersen_UK
dc.subjectimportance of financial achievementsen_UK
dc.subjectmodel of career structurationen_UK
dc.subjectproactive career behaviouren_UK
dc.subjectsocietal contexten_UK
dc.titleCareers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies’ career-related human potential and proactive career behavioren_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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