Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career-related human potential and proactive career behaviour

Maike Andresen; Eleni Apospori; Hugh Gunz; Pamela Agata Suzanne; Mami Taniguchi; Evgenia I. Lysova; Ifedapo Adeleye; Olusegun Babalola; Silvia Bagdadli; Rhoda Bakuwa; Biljana Bogićević Milikić; Janine Bosak; Jon P. Briscoe; Jong Seok Cha; Katharina Chudzikowski; Richard Cotton; Silvia Dello Russo; Michael Dickmann; Nicky Dries; Anders Dysvik; Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart; Zhangfeng Fei; Sonia Ferencikova; Martina Gianecchini; Martin Gubler; Denisa Hackett; Douglas T. Hall; Denise Jepsen; Kadriye Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu; Robert Kaše; Svetlana Khapova; Najung Kim; Mila Lazarova; Philip Lehmann; Sergio Madero; Debbie Mandel; Wolfgang Mayrhofer; Sushanta Kumar Mishra; Chikae Naito; Ana D. Nikodijević; Emma Parry; Astrid Reichel; Paula Liliana Rozo Posada; Noreen Saher; Richa Saxena; Nanni Schleicher; Yan Shen; Florian Schramm; Adam Smale; Julie Unite; Marijke Verbruggen; Jelena Zikic

doi:10.1111/1748-8583.12247

Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career-related human potential and proactive career behaviour

Maike Andresen^*, Eleni Apospori, Hugh Gunz, Pamela Agata Suzanne, Mami Taniguchi, Evgenia I. Lysova, Ifedapo Adeleye, Olusegun Babalola, Silvia Bagdadli, Rhoda Bakuwa, Biljana Bogićević Milikić, Janine Bosak, Jon P. Briscoe, Jong Seok Cha, Katharina Chudzikowski, Richard Cotton, Silvia Dello Russo, Michael Dickmann, Nicky Dries, Anders DysvikPetra Eggenhofer-Rehart, Zhangfeng Fei, Sonia Ferencikova, Martina Gianecchini, Martin Gubler, Denisa Hackett, Douglas T. Hall, Denise Jepsen, Kadriye Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu, Robert Kaše, Svetlana Khapova, Najung Kim, Mila Lazarova, Philip Lehmann, Sergio Madero, Debbie Mandel, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Sushanta Kumar Mishra, Chikae Naito, Ana D. Nikodijević, Emma Parry, Astrid Reichel, Paula Liliana Rozo Posada, Noreen Saher, Richa Saxena, Nanni Schleicher, Yan Shen, Florian Schramm, Adam Smale, Julie Unite, Marijke Verbruggen, Jelena Zikic

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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 behaviours are understood and embedded in the more distal societal context. More specifically, we operationalise societal context using the career-related human potential composite and aim to understand if and why career goals and behaviours vary between countries. Drawing on a model of career structuration and using multilevel mediation modelling, we draw on a survey of 17,986 employees from 27 countries, covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters, and national statistical data to examine the relationship between societal context (macrostructure building the career-opportunity structure) and actors' career goals (career mesostructure) and career behaviour (actions). We show that societal context in terms of societies' career-related human potential composite is negatively associated with the importance given to financial achievements as a specific career mesostructure in a society that is positively related to individuals' proactive career behaviour. Our career mesostructure fully mediates the relationship between societal context and individuals' proactive career behaviour. In this way, we expand career theory's scope beyond occupation- and organisation-related factors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	365-391
Number of pages	27
Journal	Human Resource Management Journal
Volume	30
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12247
Publication status	Published - 2020 Jul 1

Keywords

career mesostructure
career-related human potential
careers
importance of financial achievements
model of career structuration
proactive career behaviour
societal context

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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Andresen, M., Apospori, E., Gunz, H., Suzanne, P. A., Taniguchi, M., Lysova, E. I., Adeleye, I., Babalola, O., Bagdadli, S., Bakuwa, R., Bogićević Milikić, B., Bosak, J., Briscoe, J. P., Cha, J. S., Chudzikowski, K., Cotton, R., Dello Russo, S., Dickmann, M., Dries, N., ... Zikic, J. (2020). Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career-related human potential and proactive career behaviour. Human Resource Management Journal, 30(3), 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12247

Andresen, M, Apospori, E, Gunz, H, Suzanne, PA, Taniguchi, M, Lysova, EI, Adeleye, I, Babalola, O, Bagdadli, S, Bakuwa, R, Bogićević Milikić, B, Bosak, J, Briscoe, JP, Cha, JS, Chudzikowski, K, Cotton, R, Dello Russo, S, Dickmann, M, Dries, N, Dysvik, A, Eggenhofer-Rehart, P, Fei, Z, Ferencikova, S, Gianecchini, M, Gubler, M, Hackett, D, Hall, DT, Jepsen, D, Çakmak-Otluoğlu, KÖ, Kaše, R, Khapova, S, Kim, N, Lazarova, M, Lehmann, P, Madero, S, Mandel, D, Mayrhofer, W, Mishra, SK, Naito, C, Nikodijević, AD, Parry, E, Reichel, A, Rozo Posada, PL, Saher, N, Saxena, R, Schleicher, N, Shen, Y, Schramm, F, Smale, A, Unite, J, Verbruggen, M & Zikic, J 2020, 'Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career-related human potential and proactive career behaviour', Human Resource Management Journal, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 365-391. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12247

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