Despite the ubiquitous presence of the term "career patterns" in the discourse about careers, the existing empirical evidence on (managerial) career patterns is rather limited. From this literature review of 33 published empirical studies of managerial and similar professional career patterns found in electronic bibliographic databases, it is…

We propose a person-centered framework for conceptualizing subjective careers in an increasingly boundaryless work context. Specifically, we argue that entrepreneurship, professionalism, and leadership (EPL) can serve as three key dimensions of subjective career space. We relate this framework to earlier macro-level national and organizational…

An experimental design was used to test the hypothesis that vocational interests can be a precursor to the development of self-efficacy. Participants (n = 180) rated job descriptions for careers in the domains of information technology, sales, and teaching that contained information on activities and work values. Participants rated those job…

Responses from 280 female business graduates showed that 70% had mentors (two-thirds of whom were male) and only 39% of organizations encouraged mentoring. Those who reported more mentoring had mentors who were their supervisors, were in longer mentoring relationships, or were in organizations supporting mentoring. (SK)

Metaanalysis of 15 studies revealed a moderately strong, positive as sociation between commitment to a profession and to an organization. Degree of professionalization, job position, and form of professional commitment moderated the correlation between professional and organizational commitment. (SK)

Australian professional women (n=414) identified their career stage concerns. Satisfaction with pay and job involvement was lowest in the exploration stage; in establishment stage, they were more satisfied with pay, less willing to relocate. In maintenance stage, professional commitment and career involvement increased. (SK)

Demonstrated that reference groups which were not membership groups were significantly associated with self-image. Focusing on architectural students, it showed that although reference to artists was not dominant for most of the subjects, a significant difference exists between self-images of students who referred to artists and those who did not.…

Pre/post measures were completed by 226 medical technologists in 1996 and 2000. Attitudinal professional commitment had a stronger negative relationship to intention to leave the profession. Gender discrimination and organizational support had a stronger negative relationship to intention to leave the organization. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)

Cluster analysis of data from 397 banking managers and professionals revealed 4 subtypes: chronic and developmental career-undecided employees and vigilant and hypervigilant career-decided employees. (Reactions from Tiedeman, Krumboltz, and Hall and rejoinder from Greenhaus and Callanan are provided.) (SK)

According to a survey of career commitment in 3 stages among 396 managers/professionals in Singapore, career satisfaction was significant in the stability stage and organizational commitment in the maintenance stage. Commitment was positively related to skill development and negatively related to career withdrawal intentions. (SK)

Women's lower achievement level in professions is explained by the Multiple Role Negotiation perspective as resulting from difficulty in balancing the "active," demanding roles of wife/mother and a high-level professional role. The findings reveal that neither males nor females perceive the female familial role as the "more active." (Author)

A survey of 927 registered nurses received 248 responses showing that more highly educated nurses engaged in more professional behaviors such as reading journals and updating skills. Attitudinal commitment to the profession did not differ significantly with educational level. (SK)

Managers (n=143) completed a simulation exercise involving requests for employment assistance for the spouses of relocating employees. About one-third authorized specific actions. However, managers offered more extensive assistance to the spouses of female employees. (Contains 60 references.) (SK)

Presents an occupational classification system derived empirically and based on nine of many dimensions of professionalism. Results indicated the taxonomy represented expectations only to a moderate degree. A reasonable proportion of occupations had attributes closer to occupations in other clusters than to occupations in their own cluster.…

A 4-year study of 672 medical technologists identified interrole work transitions as intent to leave the organization, intent to leave the profession, and intended retirement age. Job satisfaction had a significant impact on intent to leave. Organizational context influenced intent to leave the organization and professional commitment influenced…