...Salima Hamouche; Annick Parent-Lamarche Purpose Leaders play a crucial role in employees’ career advancement and well-being at work, which can be significantly challenged under abusive leadership, particularly in a teleworking context. This study empirically examines the direct effects of abusive...

... of social capital in FFNs and its impact on their members’ career success. Design/methodology/approach Ego-centred network maps (n = 50) and quantitative questionnaires (n = 140) were triangulated to explore FFNs in the culture sector, examining how women’s networking behaviour and FFN...

...Igor Kotlyar; Julia Richardson; Len Karakowsky Purpose – An increasingly popular method of facilitating employee and leadership development is via a career community (Parker et al., 2004), where individuals self-organize to obtain career support. This study was driven by the following...

..., to expanding the field of study of migration and the careers of migrants from theoretical and methodological perspectives. Inal, Al Ariss, and Forson present a paper entitled “Self‐employment as a career strategy for ethnic minorities: the case of Turkish‐Cypriots in Britain.” Self‐employment for ethnic...

...Michael Dickmann Purpose The literature has hitherto neglected the influence of specific cities on the decision to work abroad, implicitly treating all locations within countries as similar. Using a boundaryless careers and expatriation perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate...

..., it introduces an overarching conceptual framework based on career capital theory to explain SIEs’ career success. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual framework is based on a review of the relevant literature on SIE, expatriation, career studies, cross‐cultural studies, migration, and other related...

...Akram Al Ariss; Iris Koall; Mustafa Ozbilgin; Vesa Suutari; Marian Crowley‐Henry Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore contemporary metaphors used in career literature pertaining to career development in an international context. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative interviews...

...Richard Boyatzis; Arnaldo Camuffo; Fabrizio Gerli; Silvia Borgo; Tatiana Somià Purpose This study aims to explore how the amount and the nature of learning accrued during an MBA – measured in terms of competency development – impact on career advancement and compensation. Design/methodology...

...Hassan I. Ballout Purpose Despite widespread acknowledgement that work‐family conflict and career success are salient issues that impact individual wellbeing and organizational effectiveness, there is little research that studies how the two concepts are related. The purpose of this paper...

... prior to adopting review and evaluation techniques. Marion O'Connor can be contacted at: marion.oconnor@failteireland.ie © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Management development Careers Career development Mentoring Coaching Ireland In a recent Journal...

...Fang Lee Cooke Purpose This paper aims to explore the role of managers in managing the inter‐organisational relationship. It investigates how the nature of work and career prospects may have changed for managers in both the public and the private sector under the public/private outsourcing...

... of competence based on an extensive literature review. Findings Sources of conceptual ambiguity are rooted in treating competence as both independent and dependent variables in relation to managerial performance. A managerial learning framework and a career perspective may offer less ambiguous, more...

...Katharina Hartl Given the focus of the analysis, namely the biographies and career experiences of a number of expatriate women managers, I would have expected some consistency in the presentation of the profiles of respondents. However, the presentation of case material lacks such consistency...

...Ruth Simpson This article presents and discusses results of a research project on the personal and career benefits of the MBA. These results suggest women value the experience of doing the course and that this gives them greater “intrinsic” benefits of enhanced confidence and self‐worth. Men gain...

...Monica C. Higgins The context of the present study is the early careers of lawyers. I examine if and how receiving “more” mentoring – in terms both of number of relationships and amount and type of assistance received – affects individuals’ satisfaction at work. Results suggest that the more...

...Irene Chew Keng‐Howe; Ziqi Liao This study explores the impact of differential family structures on income and career satisfaction of managers in Singapore. A total of 225 managers who were MBA graduates from the three local universities were surveyed. Results of this study support Devanna’s (1988...

...Judith K. Pringle; Una O'C. Gold The utility of career planning for managers is evaluated. The current activities and beliefs of practising managers are drawn on. The results of a study of 50 women and men managers support other empirical findings and point to the absence of career planning...

...Paul Evans How career management becomes a tool for strategic control and development is outlined. Three phases to career development are identified: exploration, establishment and mid‐late career. On this basis career management questions and the implications of research are explored, leading...

...Edward G. Verlander All management development programmes set out to train managers to manage the link between a stable, loyal workforce, cost control and the organisation's overall strategy. This career development is a catalyst which leads to assertive action to provide employment security rather...