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Adapting to Change: The Value of Change Information and Meaning-Making
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van den Heuvel, Machteld; Demerouti, Evangelia; Bakker, Arnold B.; Schaufeli, Wilmar B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2013
The purpose of this 3-wave study is to examine the micro process of how employees adapt to change over time. We combined Conservation of Resources theory with insights from the organizational change literature to study employees in a Dutch police district undergoing reorganization. A model was tested where employee adaptability, operationalized by…
Descriptors: Employees, Police, Adjustment (to Environment), Employee Attitudes
Controlling Your Environment and Yourself: Implications for Career Success
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Converse, Patrick D.; Pathak, Jaya; DePaul-Haddock, Anne Marie; Gotlib, Tomer; Merbedone, Matthew – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
Given the complex and rapidly changing nature of the current work environment, individuals' capabilities to effectively influence their environment and regulate their behavior may be critical to career success. Drawing from the model of emergent interactive agency (Bandura, 1989), the current research examines this perspective, focusing on…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Reputation, Educational Attainment, Personality
Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
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Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter; Weinberg, Bruce A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
This paper develops a framework of the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring and directness. The ability to perform these tasks varies with personality and the importance of these tasks varies across jobs. An assignment model shows that people are most productive in jobs that…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Labor Market, Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Countries
Integrating Vocational Interest Inventory Results and Expressed Choices.
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Laing, Joan; And Others – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1984
Explored the relationship between the degree to which choices and interests agree and later persistence in an expressed choice, using longitudinal data for college students (N=7,706) and employed persons (N=1,372). Results indicated that persistence in an expressed choice increases systematically as congruence between choice and interests…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Congruence (Psychology), Employees
Families in a High-Tech Age: Technology Usage Patterns, Work and Family Correlates, and Gender
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Chesley, Noelle – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This study analyzes a couple-level ("N" = 581), longitudinal data set of employees to provide evidence about technology use over time, the factors that predict use, and the potential for a spouse to influence an individual's use. Although longitudinal usage patterns suggest a trend toward adoption and use of e-mail, the Internet, cell phones, and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Technological Advancement, Employment, Correlation
Predicting Individuals' Turnover and Internal Transfer Behavior. Wisconsin Working Paper 6-82-31.
Taylor, M. Susan; Covaleski, Mark A. – 1982
Researchers have spent considerable time and effort in the last 5 years developing process models to explain individuals' job turnover behavior. To examine the predictability of internal job transfers and turnover behavior from individuals' work values, career plans, and job satisfaction, nurses (N=160) completed questionnaires on demographic…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Planning, Employees, Employment Opportunities