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View article: Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro‐Level Context Across 28 Countries
Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro‐Level Context Across 28 Countries Open
Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever‐evolving nature of work. While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, ex…
View article: ‘In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data’: Unpacking the Influence of Human Resource Analytics on the Strategic Recognition of Human Resource Management
‘In God We Trust. All Others Must Bring Data’: Unpacking the Influence of Human Resource Analytics on the Strategic Recognition of Human Resource Management Open
Existing literature underscores the potential of human resource analytics (HRA) to enhance the strategic recognition of human resource management (HRM) within organisations. However, there has been limited focus on how HRA practitioners at…
View article: Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications
Linking institutional context to the community and career embeddedness of skilled migrants: The role of destination- and origin-country identifications Open
Migration is one of the most pressing global issues of our time. However, relatively little is known about the factors and mechanisms that govern the post-migration experiences of skilled migrants. We adopt an acculturation- and social ide…
View article: Context is key: A 34‐country analysis investigating how similar <scp>HRM</scp> systems emerge from similar contexts
Context is key: A 34‐country analysis investigating how similar <span>HRM</span> systems emerge from similar contexts Open
Using an institutional lens, we investigate the isomorphic effects of both external and internal contexts on human resource management (HRM) systems. Our analysis uses data from 4768 organizations across 34 countries to focus on the simila…
View article: Intersectional income inequality: a longitudinal study of class and gender effects on careers
Intersectional income inequality: a longitudinal study of class and gender effects on careers Open
Intersectional income inequalities based on social class and gender remain under-researched. This paper examines the development of the gender pay gap, the class pay gap, and the intersectional gender-class pay gap over time. Drawing on a …
View article: High‐commitment HRM practices during the financial crisis in Portugal: Employees' and HR perspectives
High‐commitment HRM practices during the financial crisis in Portugal: Employees' and HR perspectives Open
Over the recent decades, organizations have had to face a number of major external shocks and crises. Acquiring a better understanding of how human resources are managed under such critical conditions constitutes the main purpose of this s…
View article: Careers: what they are and how to look at them
Careers: what they are and how to look at them Open
Careers are central to people’s lives, but difficult to describe and understand. Building on the notion that everyone participating in the workforce has a career, this chapter presents the major building blocks of careers along three dimen…
View article: One, two, many ways - a hands-on guide to how to navigate this book
One, two, many ways - a hands-on guide to how to navigate this book Open
This book contains career stories in context from all the populated continents in the world. It demonstrates how to look at careers from various perspectives. The stories are grouped in to 6 key themes: personal characteristic, stability a…
View article: Against all odds: a career success story of a woman of lower-class origin in Austria
Against all odds: a career success story of a woman of lower-class origin in Austria Open
Despite the free access to higher education in Austria, people of lower-class origin and women still experience career disadvantages. Yet, as career research focuses on individual agency, it often neglects contextual factors that produce s…
View article: Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions
Mind the Setback! Enacted sensemaking in young workers’ early career transitions Open
Setbacks at career transitions can have an enduring impact on how people enact their subsequent careers. Drawing on an enacted sensemaking perspective, we examine the micro-mechanisms of career choice and navigation with and without a setb…
View article: From wallflower to life and soul of the party: acknowledging time’s role at center stage in the study of careers
From wallflower to life and soul of the party: acknowledging time’s role at center stage in the study of careers Open
The point of departure for this paper is the observation that time is central to the study of careers, although research on time and careers is not easy to do and is expensive. The paper does not attempt to minimize these practical difficu…
View article: Workplace Spirituality
Workplace Spirituality Open
A state-of-the-art overview of the field of management, spirituality and religion, comprising concise chapters written by experts in the sub-fields and edited by recognized leaders in the field of management, spirituality and religion.
View article: Contours of Workplace Antisemitism: Initial Thoughts and a Research Agenda
Contours of Workplace Antisemitism: Initial Thoughts and a Research Agenda Open
In the contextofthe risingtide of antisemitism worldwide, we wish to drawthe contours of workplace organizational antisemitism,ah ithertoi gnoredt opic in contemporary scholarship, by presenting aframework for its study.In particular,wepro…
View article: Embedded in context: How time and distance affect the convergence of personnel selection practices
Embedded in context: How time and distance affect the convergence of personnel selection practices Open
The debate on convergence versus divergence or stasis in human resource management (HRM) practices over time is still ongoing. We look at configurations of organisations' personnel selection practices and empirically analyse the role of ge…
View article: Effects of mixed signals on employer attractiveness: A mixed‐method study based on signalling and convention theory
Effects of mixed signals on employer attractiveness: A mixed‐method study based on signalling and convention theory Open
Traditional recruiting activities are marked by information asymmetry and organisational information control, leading to uncertainty among applicants about employer attractiveness. New technologies profoundly change the picture. Recruiting…
View article: Laying the foundations of international careers research
Laying the foundations of international careers research Open
As an editorial to the special issue “new avenues in international careers research” this article discusses the roots of the international careers research stream, which sits at the intersection between career studies, HRM and internationa…
View article: Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour
Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour Open
Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisational‐level variables, we provide insights into how career goals and be…
View article: Context and HRM: Theory, Evidence, and Proposals
Context and HRM: Theory, Evidence, and Proposals Open
Human resource management (HRM) has paid insufficient attention to the impact of context. In this article, we outline the need for HRM to take full account of context, particularly national context, and to use both cultural theories and, p…
View article: The meaning and value of comparative human resource management: an introduction
The meaning and value of comparative human resource management: an introduction Open
The subject of comparative human resource management (HRM) and its boundaries are established, discussing the role of context in HRM. The question is then raised whether globalisation is making such an analysis increasingly irrelevant as s…
View article: Rethinking Career Studies
Rethinking Career Studies Open
Careers are studied across many disciplines - particularly from the social sciences - but there is little conversation between them. Many scholars are studying the same thing in different ways, too often missing opportunities to learn from…
View article: Consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany: A multilevel analysis for 1985–2013
Consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany: A multilevel analysis for 1985–2013 Open
Analyzing the development of the consequences of voluntary job changes in Germany between 1985 and 2013, the study focuses on income gains and job satisfaction increases. Drawing on arguments of the job-search literature on the one hand an…