...Noeleen Doherty; Michael Dickmann; Timothy Mills Purpose The paper seeks to explore the career attitudes, motivations and behaviours of young people in initial vocational education and training (IVET) in Europe. Design/methodology/approach This exploratory web‐based survey was conducted during...

... for research that they suggest. Originality/value The paper frames the issues and extends the overall knowledge in the field. All over the world, with Europe being no exception, countries are facing unprecedented, and in many cases not fully predictable demographic changes (United Nations, 2007...

... and job (dis)satisfaction, of the current state of the health care sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Work identity Health services Nurses Skills flexibility Europe In this context the German researchers Pongratz and Voss (1998 ; 2003) postulate...

... Employees attitudes Europe This article is a qualitative study looking at the development of occupational identities of employees working in the engineering and metal‐working sector in England, France, Germany and Spain. One way of considering an occupational identity, to which we...

.... Perception and evaluation of the work situation and its implications for personal as well as professional development and identification. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Work identity Telecommunications Europe Employees attitudes Career development The following article...

..., developing products, contributions to the local development). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Employees attitudes Tourism Europe Vocational training Career development This paper discusses the formation of vocational identities of employees working in the sector of tourism...

... and uncertainty, influence work‐related identities of IT specialists. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Information personnel Work identity Career development Employees attitudes Vocational training Europe This paper investigates the dynamics of work‐related identities in the light...

..., Estonia, France, Germany, Spain and the UK conducted large sample interviews, which formed the major part of the investigation. They represent one transition country, Central and Southern Europe. With Germany and the UK, two different concepts of work within Europe were represented. The Czech Republic...

... come under pressure throughout Europe in recent years (Ferner and Hyman, 1992 , 1998), and indeed the absence of a tradition of social partnership largely explains why institutional type partnerships are absent in the UK (see Table I). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Workplace...

.... This research is particularly relevant as European empirical research has not been conducted with senior female international executives, presumably because of their relative scarcity. Empirical work with senior female international managers in Europe is now necessary in order to explain why...