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Ko, Jyh-Jer Roger; Yeh, Ying-Jung Yvonne – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Since the 1980s, many employment relationships in Taiwan have evolved from regular and long-term to contingent and short-term, with widespread downsizing adding a considerable amount of instability. Since these changes are part of a global trend, there is a growing literature concerning their influences on worker attitudes and work life quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Practices, Employment Patterns, Job Satisfaction
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Reitzle, Matthias; Korner, Astrid; Vondracek, Fred W. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2009
Recent years have witnessed a growing diversity of career patterns, resulting from the relative decline of stable employment. In the present study of 1368 employed and self-employed German adults career pattern diversity was assessed using nine pictograms. The goal was to identify psychological and demographic correlates of these patterns and to…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Social Change, Psychological Patterns, Employment Opportunities
Richman, Louis S. – Fortune, 1995
Insecurity haunts many working people as corporations restructure and remove the underpinnings of career-long employment that sustains workers' confidence in their future. Unless workers adapt to managing their own careers, they may see the future as a reign of terror rather than the dawn of a promising era. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Career Development, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Wolverton, Mimi; Macdonald, R. Timothy – 2002
A recent national study suggests that 80 percent of current superintendents are at or near retirement. To compound the problem of a shrinking pool of candidates, highly qualified potential applicants often simply do not want the job. This report focuses on the aspects of the positions that serve as disincentives to seemingly qualified candidates.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Experience, Employment Patterns, Job Applicants
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Dyer, Suzette; Hurd, Fiona – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2004
Collectively, globalisation and flexibility strategies have changed the nature and structure of employment, and as such careers academics, careers practitioners and governments have argued that individuals need to manage their careers in fundamentally new ways to ensure continued employment. We have become concerned that the promise of shared…
Descriptors: Careers, Industry, Job Security, Career Development
de Wolff, Alice – 2000
A survey of 205 people, 4 group interviews with approximately 30 people, and 6 design and analysis meetings involving approximately 40 people were conducted in a 1999 participatory study of contingent workers in Toronto. (Contingent work was defined to be lower-waged forms of non-permanent work arrangements that include contracting, employment…
Descriptors: Adults, Employee Attitudes, Employer Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship