...Nicolette Sammarco Caldwell; Christine Holyfield; Elizabeth Lorah; Tracy Rackensperger Purpose The paper aims to support employers in avoiding linguistic profiling of individuals with communication disabilities; thereby reducing their exclusion from the workforce. It provides employers and others...

... is to analyze the interaction effect of perceived employability and job insecurity on extra‐role and impression management behaviors. Design/methodology/approach Based on a sample of 207 supervisor‐subordinate dyads in Korean banking and financial institutions, the relationships between job insecurity...

... contract in its very initial stages. The authors discuss implications for research and practice on managing psychological contract creation. A concept that “neatly captures the spirit of our times” (Guest, 1998, p. 649) regarding the contemporary employment relationships is the psychological contract...

... by an employee as an organizational practice that promotes his or her employability, this entails a social exchange relationship. Design/methodology/approach Surveys from 240 call centre workers were analyzed using correlation and multiple regression to explore relationships between training to promote...

... individuals. Originality/value Little research exists on the antecedents of older workers' motives for continuing to work. Prior research has either not differentiated among older workers or focused solely on one specific group of older workers. Older workers Career satisfaction Employment Self...

... is located within a “doing gender” perspective with special reference to Acker's conception of employment and organizations as gendered processes influencing individual action. Findings The paper identifies two different ways in which participants “do gender” in their professional practice in order...

...Travor Brown; Tara‐Lynn Hillier; Amy M. Warren Purpose This paper aims to assess the effectiveness of verbal self‐guidance (VSG) and self‐management on youth employability. It seeks to access the joint effectiveness of these interventions, grounded in social cognitive and goal setting theories...

...Marilyn Clarke Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore individual approaches to career and employability through the career stories of a group of mid‐level to senior managers in career transition. Career patterns are identified and then compared with traditional, boundaryless and protean...

...Adelina M. Broadbridge; Gillian A. Maxwell; Susan M. Ogden Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine Generation Y, potential graduate entrants to UK retailing, in respect of their job experiences, career perceptions and initial employment expectations. Design/methodology/approach...

...Siri Terjesen; Susan Vinnicombe; Cheryl Freeman Purpose Building on person‐organisation fit and gender self‐schema, this research aims to examine UK university final year students' perception of the importance of organisational attributes and their presence in three major graduate employers...

...Stephanie Miller; Raquel Liciardi Responding to the relatively poor employment outcomes of university graduates, Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia has embarked on a strategy of investment in career development for all students. One part of this strategy is to implement a career...

...Salah T. Madhi; Armando Barrientos The paper explores the conditions of employment and career development in Saudi Arabia, which are found to be strongly segmented across nationalities. It discusses the main factors shaping employment and career development in Saudi Arabia, including employment...

...Ronald J. Burke This exploratory study examined recent business school graduates appreciation of ongoing changes in the nature of employment relationships. It has been suggested by some that job security is now dead and that company loyalty has all but disappeared. To what extent do recent business...

...Martin Kimeldorf Discusses today’s changing work patterns where permanent, secure jobs are giving way to a life of contract and temporary forms of employment and numerous job changes. Suggests that a portfolio better fits the increasingly portable nature of employment than does a résumé. Outlines...

... MCB UP Limited 1996 Employment Health Overwork Self‐development Stress Work Self‐developers often emphasize that their approach is holistic, valuing the whole person, the whole organization and the whole community. In this article I examine what such a perspective might offer us...

...Paul Stevens Describes the wide diversity of career development support programmes now being offered by many employers in Australia. Summarizes positive and negative effects along with the conclusions arrived at after 98 workplace interventions within Australia. Concludes career development is seen...

... Employment Job analysis Organizational restructuring Outsourcing Vendors Work Workplace learning BL What do you consider to be the core message of your new book Jobshift? WB I made a deliberate strategic decision not to deal specifically with the issues of strategy. My objective...

...Ronald J. Burke; Carol A. McKeen Describes a study which examined the relationship of employment gaps to measures of work outcomes and emotion wellbeing. Data were collected from a diverse sample of 792 managerial and professional women using questionnaires completed anonymously. Managerial women...

... differences may have significant effect on employment and career planning. Suggests procedures for corporations to use correct possible biased hiring practices. Additionally, Hirsch[ 5 ] believes a culturally literate person has stored more schemata (approximately 50,000) than a culturally illiterate person...

... shortage); age composition of the workforce; initiatives to accommodate,use and develop older workers; employers′ attitudes towards older workers; and employers′ interest in participating in a job fair to hire older workers. Data were collected in 306 firms in one geographic area. The results show...