Job search and voluntary turnover in a boundaryless world: A control theory perspective

MS Direnzo, JH Greenhaus - Academy of Management Review, 2011 - journals.aom.org
We propose a cybernetic model of job search and voluntary turnover that is based on the
need to remain employable in a volatile economy. The model depicts the process by which …

The organizational career: Not dead but in need of redefinition

M Clarke - The International Journal of Human Resource …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
The organizational career has been portrayed as increasingly irrelevant in a world where
organizations are either unwilling or unable to offer job security, and where individuals are …

A boundaryless perspective on careers

JH Greenhaus, GA Callanan, M DiRenzo - … of organizational behavior, 2008 - torrossa.com
One of the most significant themes emerging in the literature over the past several decades
has been the decline of traditional, organizational careers characterized by upward mobility …

Theboundaryless' career and career boundaries: Applying an institutionalist perspective to ICT workers in the context of Nigeria

A Ituma, R Simpson - Human Relations, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Drawing from institutional theory, this article exploresboundaryless' careers and the nature
of career boundaries in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in …

Impact of career plateau and supervisory support on career satisfaction: A study in offshore outsourced IT firms in Sri Lanka

V Wickramasinghe, M Jayaweera - career development international, 2010 - emerald.com
Although IT employees attached to the offshore IT firms may be identified as a unique
population worthy of empirical investigation, details on how they actually manage their …

Changing demographics and the shifting nature of careers: Implications for research and human resource development

ST Lyons, ES Ng, L Schweitzer - Human Resource …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on human resource development is needed to empirically document the changing
nature of careers among successive generational cohorts of workers. This article offers a …

Practice and research in career counseling and development—2006

HLS Tien - The Career Development Quarterly, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The author presents professional literature published in 2006 related to career counseling
and development. The literature is organized into 3 sections:(a) professional issues related …

Moving beyond Schein's typology: individual career anchors in the context of Nigeria

A Ituma, R Simpson - Personnel review, 2007 - emerald.com
Purpose–Drawing on institutional theory, this study sets out to explore the career anchors
that exist among information technology (IT) workers in Nigeria and also to establish the …

Motivation to become an entrepreneur: a study of Nigerian women's decisions

S Singh, R Simpson, C Mordi, C Okafor - African Journal of Economic …, 2011 - emerald.com
A survey research design involving the use of questionnaire and structured interviews to
obtain primary data was adopted. Primary data pertain to 300 female entrepreneurs …

Contextualizing human capital theory in a non-Western setting: Testing the pay-for-performance assumption

M Hayek, CH Thomas, MM Novicevic… - Journal of Business …, 2016 - Elsevier
Human capital theory is the dominant theoretical framework used to explain objective intra-
organizational career success. However, the economic assumption that human capital …