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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"career success"”.
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Ethnicity and Differential Career Success
… rising (ONS, 2011) meaning differential career success is a topic of increasing importance. However, thus far, very little research in organisational psychology has focused on ethnicity (Cox, Nkomo & Welch, 2001; Kenny & Briner, 2007). Therefore this thesis presents three studies designed …
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Predicting Career Success In Classically Trained Musicians
… profession) that are believed to contribute to success in music performance professions. Existing literature highlights the unique role that some of these variables play in career success, however no research has examined the combined impact of these four factors or has attempted to identify the …
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Predictors of objective and subjective career success
… objective (salary). and subjective (perceived) career success. Three sets of predictors were examined: (1) individual attributes, (2) organisational opportunity structures and (3) career strategies. It was expected that a different pattern of variables would predict objective and subjective …
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Interests, personality, and career success: Two longitudinal studies
… while also examining long-term associations with career success. Both studies used longitudinal data from samples of Icelandic youth (N1 = 485; N2 = 1,290) who responded to measures of the Big 5 traits and RIASEC interests. Study one revealed that within-person changes in interests and personality …
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Examining the relationship between proactive personality and career success
… may explain how proactive personality relates to career success: through a person's extra-role behaviors including innovation, contextual performance, and organizational citizenship behavior. Data were collected from 302 employees of a large manufacturing organization in the Midwestern United …
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Gender and organisational culture: relationships between marginality and women’s career success
… explore the associations between marginality and career success, and between marginality and quality of work variables such as stress and role conflict. The research used a model that encompasses a version of fit, whereby stress is viewed as a mis-fit between an individual’s personal values and …
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DISPOSITIONAL EMPLOYABILITY AND THE RELATIONSHIP TO CAREER SUCCESS: A META-ANALYSIS
… of Hogan et al. (2009), in relationship to career success. Willingness to work (W) can be defined as favorably disposed to work hard and take initiative at one’s job. The variables I used to structure the W are proactive personality, conscientiousness, work ethic, job involvement, …
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Transforming Disability To Advantage: A Phenomenological Study Of Career Success For Dyslexics
… life experiences of dyslexic individuals with successful careers. Six dyslexic participants described meaningful experiences in their lives and career success in individual, semistructured, in-person interviews in the New York tri-state area. The participants shared insights that revealed four …
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The power of vocational interests and interest congruence in predicting career success
… for predicting academic achievement and career success. Analysis of a national longitudinal survey, Project TALENT (Wise, McLaughlin, & Steel, 1979), showed that interests were the most influential contributor to income, even within occupational groups and after controlling for …
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The relationship between dispositional employability and career success of human resources management practitioners
Dispositional Employability and Career Success are constructs that when brought together leads to a multitude of questions regarding their meaning. This study attempted to determine whether there is a significant relationship between the two constructs of dispositional employability and career …
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Women in Technology: College Experiences that are Correlated with Long-Term Career Success
Women are underrepresented in technology careers because they pursue technology degrees less frequently and leave technology careers at greater numbers than do men. By analyzing a representative dataset of college graduates with degrees in computer science, computer engineering, and management …
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Predictors of skilled migrant career success: The influence of career capital, agency, and discrimination
… skilled migrants experience unfavourable career outcomes upon migration. The focus of this study was on the career outcomes of skilled migrants in South Africa and how they are influenced by the discrimination they face, their career capital and the strategies they adopt to build their …
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Career psychology factors as antecedents of career success of women academics in South Africa
The difference in career success among male and female academics is welldocumented and a number of qualitative studies have offered explanations about the challenges faced by women academics. This study provided an empirical investigation into the relationship between selected career psychology …
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Extending The Human Capital Theory Of Career Success: An Empirical Test In The Ecuadorian Context
… used as the primary explanation for objective career success. However, inconsistent results of the human capital-performance evaluation-objective career success relationships, as proposed in human capital theory, motivated this dissertation to further develop the theory by including economic, …
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Teaching for Career Success: An Agricultural Industry Perspective of Preparedness Needs for Diverse Workforce Development
… the University of Arkansas Bumpers College Career Development Center, were contacted with the survey link. A total of eighteen individuals completed the surveys, and of those eighteen survey respondents, eight individuals participated in one-on-one interviews as a follow up to the surveys. …
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Proactive Personality: Genetic Influences in its Relationships with Career Success and Environmental Impacts on Its Change
… relationships between proactive personality and career success. In the second study, I adopt an interactionist perspective to study development of proactive personality as a result of individuals' work environments and further to examine a reciprocal relationship between them. Results of the …
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Factors Influencing the Career Success of Women Lecturers in Private Sector Higher Educational Institutions in Myanmar
… the factors and processes that affect the career success of women lecturers employed at Myanmar's private tertiary educational institutions. It also explores the attributes that women lecturers perceived career success and elucidates the process by which various perceived career success …
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Degrees of success?: MPA's and MBA's from elite universities and career success in the federal government
… or more appropriate for public sector management careers than other graduate degrees, notably the MBA. The present study addresses the issue of degree appropriateness by comparing federal sector managers who are MPA-trained with those who are MBA-trained on ten career success indices. Data to …
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