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Table 1

Summary of related constructs of locked at the job

Nr	Construct	Sub-construct	Definition
1	Locked-in		“Being in a non-preferred workplace while at the same time perceiving low employability” Stengård et al. (2016, p. 152)
2	Job lock		“Being dissatisfied with the job but remaining in the same job” (Huysse-Gaytandjieva et al. (2013, p. 2)
3	Job Embeddedness in an adverse work environment		“Feeling ‘stuck’, yet unable to exit a negative situation” (Allen et al., 2016, p. 1670)
4	Involuntary non-mobility		“Dissatisfaction with one's current job, particularly in combination with perceiving that other job opportunities are lacking.” (Stengård et al., 2016, p. 153)
5	Continuance commitment		““Feeling stuck’ and staying because it is too costly to leave” (Eslami and Gharakhani, 2012, p. 85) “The magnitude and/or number of investments individuals make and a perceived lack of alternatives” (Allen and Meyer, 1990, p. 4)
6	Career entrenchment		“Immobility resulting from substantial economic and psychological investments in a career that make change difficult” (Carson et al., 1996, p. 274)
7	Turnover	Reluctant stayers	“Feel they cannot leave (although they would prefer to do so)” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 835)
		Trapped stayers	“Foregoing extrinsic forces keep employees from leaving a job lacking affective, constituent, or calculative forces” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 842)
		Contractual stayers	“Whose employment contract keeps them in misfitting jobs” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 842)
		Dissatisfied stayers	“Employees who are dissatisfied with their job but who, for a number of possible reasons, find it impossible to leave” (Mowday et al., 1982, p. 180)
		Detached stayers	“These individuals exhibit no particularly strong reasons to stay, but appear to be making no effort to leave (Woo and Allen, 2014, p. 290).”
8	Inability to leave		“The absence of actual opportunities to withdraw from a situation by changing the location of one's work or residence” (Martin and Schermerhorn, 1983, p. 655)
9	Boundaryless and protean careers		Boundaryless careers: “a high physical and/or psychological mobility” (Sullivan and Arthur, 2006, p. 22) Protean careers “a developmental progression and self-fulfillment” (Briscoe and Hall, 2006, p. 4)

Nr	Construct	Sub-construct	Definition
1	Locked-in		“Being in a non-preferred workplace while at the same time perceiving low employability” Stengård et al. (2016, p. 152)
2	Job lock		“Being dissatisfied with the job but remaining in the same job” (Huysse-Gaytandjieva et al. (2013, p. 2)
3	Job Embeddedness in an adverse work environment		“Feeling ‘stuck’, yet unable to exit a negative situation” (Allen et al., 2016, p. 1670)
4	Involuntary non-mobility		“Dissatisfaction with one's current job, particularly in combination with perceiving that other job opportunities are lacking.” (Stengård et al., 2016, p. 153)
5	Continuance commitment		““Feeling stuck’ and staying because it is too costly to leave” (Eslami and Gharakhani, 2012, p. 85)“The magnitude and/or number of investments individuals make and a perceived lack of alternatives” (Allen and Meyer, 1990, p. 4)
6	Career entrenchment		“Immobility resulting from substantial economic and psychological investments in a career that make change difficult” (Carson et al., 1996, p. 274)
7	Turnover	Reluctant stayers	“Feel they cannot leave (although they would prefer to do so)” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 835)
		Trapped stayers	“Foregoing extrinsic forces keep employees from leaving a job lacking affective, constituent, or calculative forces” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 842)
		Contractual stayers	“Whose employment contract keeps them in misfitting jobs” (Hom et al., 2012, p. 842)
		Dissatisfied stayers	“Employees who are dissatisfied with their job but who, for a number of possible reasons, find it impossible to leave” (Mowday et al., 1982, p. 180)
		Detached stayers	“These individuals exhibit no particularly strong reasons to stay, but appear to be making no effort to leave (Woo and Allen, 2014, p. 290).”
8	Inability to leave		“The absence of actual opportunities to withdraw from a situation by changing the location of one's work or residence” (Martin and Schermerhorn, 1983, p. 655)
9	Boundaryless and protean careers		Boundaryless careers: “a high physical and/or psychological mobility” (Sullivan and Arthur, 2006, p. 22)Protean careers “a developmental progression and self-fulfillment” (Briscoe and Hall, 2006, p. 4)

Note(s): The underlined parts of the definitions listed above were taken into consideration in terms of conceptualizing locked at the job

Source(s): Author's own creation/work