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Navigating transitions: A longitudinal exploration of career decision-making process dynamics in adolescents Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Madeleine Haenggli, Andreas Hirschi, Julian Marciniak
In times of changing labor markets and rapid technological development, individuals are repeatedly faced with career decision-making to manage frequent and complex transitions within and between learning and work. Thus, it is crucial to understand the dynamic process of career decision-making. Career decision-making models propose specific sequences of key aspects, such as actions of career exploration
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The wheel is turning (and you can't slow down): Financial hardships as gendered experiences and financial insecurity trajectories Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-20 Heather N. Odle-Dusseau, Yi-Ren Wang, Russell A. Matthews, Julie H. Wayne
We propose that Conservation of Resources theory can be applied through a gendered lens to understand how individual and socio-structural forces explain experiences of workers' financial hardships over a six-month period (N = 455). Using latent growth curve analysis, we analyzed how energy resources (income), personal resources (money management skills), gender, and the community's gender inequality
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Corrigendum to “Proactive personality and early employment outcomes: The mediating role of career planning and the moderator role of core self-evaluations.” [J. Vocat. Behav.], 119 (2020) 103424 Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-13 Victor Valls, Vicente González-Romá, Ana Hernández, Esperanza Rocabert
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Demands-abilities fit in longitudinal designs: An eight-wave study predicting job satisfaction and turnover in STEM professionals Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-11 André D.S. Lerche, Christian L. Burk, Bettina S. Wiese
Based on person-environment fit theory and using and advancing a latent modeling approach, this longitudinal study (eight measurement points, half-year time lags) reports on the association between demands-abilities fit and job satisfaction as well as turnover. Using demands and abilities in terms of applied work as a sample case, we tested for within-person associations between demand-ability congruence
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Corrigendum to “Reconsider what your MBA negotiation course taught you: The possible adverse effects of high salary requests” [Journal of Vocational Behavior 139 (2022) 103803] Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Yossi Maaravi, Sandra Segal
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Releasing pressure but increasing concerns: A daily investigation of supervisors' social sharing of stress and supervisors' well-being Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-10 Wen Wu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Shuning Liu, Shaoxue Wu, Dan Ni, Chong Chen, Hanzhi Xu, Junjun Liu, Ganjing Hou
The literature reveals the effectiveness of social sharing in unburdening stressed employees; however, the question of how the social sharing of stress in superior–subordinate dyads can affect supervisors' well-being remains unanswered. By integrating self-disclosure theory and conservation of resources theory, we develop a model to explore the influence of supervisors' daily social sharing of stress
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Navigating leader vs. servant identity: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of leader identity threat Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-03-07 Lee Yung Wong, Andrew Rixon, Sen Sendjaya, Samuel Wilson
Leaders regularly experience identity threats that are potentially harmful to the enactment of their self-identity as leaders. Yet research into leader identity threat, particularly those that examine the lived experience of individual leaders in situ, is scarce. Drawing on social constructionism and identity discrepancy theories, we explore the leader identity threat experienced by emergency physicians
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Turnover reasons are more complex than “people quit bosses”: An approach-avoidance perspective Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-21 Sabine Hommelhoff, Ferdinand Keller, Mark Stemmler
The claim that people quit bosses is common on career websites and has even entered academic articles. From an approach-avoidance lens, the boss adage suggests that voluntary turnover is about escaping from somebody negative, which neglects potential approach-oriented reasons. We organize common turnover reasons within the motivational framework of approach and avoidance and explore whether and to
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Sense of belonging in hybrid work settings Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Laura Urrila, Aija Siiriäinen, Liisa Mäkelä, Hilpi Kangas
Despite a wealth of research on flexible work, the understanding of the social and relational implications of hybrid work—a type of flexible work that combines remote and onsite work—is limited. This qualitative study investigates how individuals experience belonging in the hybrid working context. We present findings from 32 interviews conducted at two time-points between 2020 and 2022 with 16 expert
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Crafting the road to well-being for precarious frontline workers: Explicating the role of jolts and resources Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 Ann M. Mirabito, David Solnet, Bethany S. Cockburn, Maria Golubovskaya, Xinyu (Judy) Hu, Laura E. McClelland, Richard N.S. Robinson
High psychological work demands, low decision latitude, and minimal social support, together with disproportionate burdens from environmental threats such as the COVID-19 pandemic, tax the well-being of low-income frontline workers (FLWs). While worker well-being is linked with productivity and engagement, little is known about the well-being journeys of FLWs in precarious, low-paid, low-status roles
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“Cats in the cradle:” Work-family conflict, parenting, and life satisfaction among fathers Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Joseph Regina, Tammy D. Allen
Using data from 1995 to 2016, we examined how work interference with family (WIF) and father involvement relate to life satisfaction synchronously as well as 10 and 20 years later with hypotheses informed by life course theory. Specifically, father involvement was tested as a mediator of the relationships from WIF to life satisfaction among 387 working fathers who participated in three waves of the
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Migrant women navigating the intersection of gender, migration, and career development: A systematic literature review Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Sogol Yazdankhoo, Peyman Abkhezr, Donna McAuliffe, Mary McMahon
This article reports on a systematic literature review that investigated the current state of knowledge on migrant women's career development within the two fields of migration studies and career development/vocational psychology. Migrant women, a heterogeneous population, undergo significant transitions navigating post-migration uncertainties. A wide range of post-migration factors and experiences
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Mobilized social capital and career success: A model of retrieval, referral, and reinforcement Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Helen H. Zhao, Shuning Liu, Xiaoming Zheng, Ning Li, Shun Yiu, Xin Liu
Social capital has been widely used to explain employees' objective and subjective career success. However, having social capital is one thing, and being able to use it is another thing. In the seminal social resources theory, the social mobilization process is theorized as a key intermediary process to transform social capital into valued job or career outcomes (Lin, 1999, 2001). Despite its importance
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A narrative approach to career identity construction of autistic adults Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Yael Goldfarb, Ofer Golan, Eynat Gal
Due to the growing prevalence of autism diagnosis, counselors in various settings are more likely to encounter autistic adults seeking employment-related counseling and support. Research on employment in the field of autism has focused mostly on a person-environment fit perspective, which does not take into account the complexity of career behavior and contemporary developments in vocational psychology
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Family-friendly policies and workplace supports: A meta-analysis of their effects on career, job, and work-family outcomes Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Rutger Blom, Eva Jaspers, Eva Knies, Tanja van der Lippe
Today, many individuals face the challenge of combining work and family responsibilities. To help employees tackle the issues they face when juggling work and family, organizations often provide formal family-friendly policies. In addition, other people in the workplace, such as supervisors and coworkers, can support employees in an informal way in work and family reconciliation. In this study, we
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Adapting boundary preferences to match reality of hybrid work: A latent change score analysis☆ Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-07 Min (Maggie) Wan, Dawn S. Carlson, Sara Jansen Perry, Merideth J. Thompson, Yejun (John) Zhang, K. Michele Kacmar
The hybrid work trend, where employees work from home and from the workplace, brings substantial changes to how employees manage their work and family lives, as well as the boundary between those roles. An important yet overlooked question is how hybrid workers, whose work environment overlaps with their home environment for at least part of every work week, navigate and adapt to work-family stressors
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Exploring the use of ICTs as a tool for job crafting Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-22 Lisa Handke, Giverny De Boeck, Sharon K. Parker
In this paper, we integrate Action-Regulation Theory into job crafting research to explore workers' agency in using information and communication technologies (ICTs) to redesign their work. Specifically, using a sequential mixed-methods design, we investigate workers' proactive use of ICTs for job crafting. In Study 1, we explore workers' use of ICTs to change their job demands and job resources using
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Employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets: A longitudinal person-centered investigation Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-15 Alexandre J.S. Morin, Christian Vandenberghe, Joon Lee, Nicolas Gillet
This study uses a person-centered approach to investigate the structure, stability, antecedents, and outcomes of employees' affective commitment to multiple work-related targets. Following Perreira et al.'s (2018) hierarchical representation of commitment, profiles of affective commitment were estimated by considering both global levels of commitment to the work life and specific levels of commitment
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Not a pipeline but a highway: Men's and women's STEM career trajectories from age 13 to 25 Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-07 Yannan Gao, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Anna-Lena Dicke
Concerns with diversifying and expanding the STEM workforce have elicited extensive efforts to increase women's adherence to a “no leak pipeline” to match that of men. However, is such a trajectory optimal for boosting women's STEM career attainment? If so, among which types of STEM occupations? Studies often suggested that women are underrepresented in the pipeline of “white-collar”, mathematical
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Supervisor resilience promotes employee well-being: The role of resource crossover Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-12-02 Jacquelyn M. Brady, Leslie B. Hammer, Mina Westman
Drawing on Conservation of Resources theory and Crossover theory, we investigated the potential for crossover of a personal resource, resilience, from supervisors to employees. Specifically, the present study examined whether supervisor resilience influences employee well-being (i.e., psychological distress, burnout, and life satisfaction) via a top-down resilience crossover process. The present study
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Don't leave the good things in the rearview! A field experiment examining the influence of a positive work reflection intervention on taxi drivers' work behaviors Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-28 Xiaoxiao Hu, Yujie Zhan, Su Kyung (Irene) Kim, William P. Jimenez, Xiang Yao
As service jobs tend to be demanding and exhausting, it is critical to identify ways that help service employees stay positive and engage in behaviors that represent high quality customer service. Drawing upon affective events theory, this research aims to examine how a positive work reflection intervention influences service employees' work behaviors via positive affect and the role of promotion focus
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Family recognition of work as a source of meaningful work: Examining the roles of self-esteem and parental status Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-26 Seonyoung Hwang, Yiluyi Zeng, Evgenia I. Lysova
Research on meaningful work has highlighted social context as an important source of meaningful work but has primarily focused on the social context at work. This is surprising, given that much of the work-family research showed that family can enrich work experiences. To address this noticeable gap, this paper introduces the concept of ‘family recognition of work’ – a perception of family recognizing
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The impacts of supervisory information communication technology (ICT) demands after hours on employee proactive behavior and unethical behavior at work: An attribution perspective Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-19 Shenjiang Mo, Wenqing Yu, Yanran Fang, Yi Su, Yu Zhao
It is not unusual that employees are required by their supervisors to stay accessible and responsive to work during nonwork time in the digitalized workplace. Yet, we know little about how and when supervisory information communication technology (ICT) demands after hours influence employee behavior at work. Drawing on attribution theory, our research aims to unpack the underlying mechanisms that transmit
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Eye of the beholder: A meta-analysis of personality traits' relationships with psychological contract breach and job performance Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Youngduk Lee, Christopher M. Berry, Rebecca Rees
Psychological contract breach (PCB) is a subjective perception that one's employer has failed to live up to promised obligations. Because PCB is subjective, personality traits should play an important role. However, existing research on the relationships between personality traits and PCB is scattered and explores a variety of subsets of personality traits, with little agreement on which traits are
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Does grade point average have a long-lasting impact on career success later in life? A resource caravans' perspective from adolescence to mid-career Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-06 Bryndís D. Steindórsdóttir, Jan Ketil Arnulf, Hans M. Norbom
We draw on a resource caravans' perspective to explain pathways to career success among a longitudinal sample, covering the first 15 years of their careers. By applying a latent growth model, we investigate how the role of university grade point average (GPA) on career success changes across time. The results from latent growth curve analysis revealed that GPA was not positively related to initial
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Give it your all or hardly give? The role of mentors' beliefs about protégé advancement potential and gender in mentoring relationships Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Belle Rose Ragins, Changya Hu, Sheng Wang, Jui-Chieh Huang
Our research challenges assumptions about equity in formal mentoring programs. Drawing on mentoring schema and diversified mentoring theory, we theorized that mentors' beliefs about their protégés' advancement potential predict the career support they provide and the quality of their relationship, and that these effects vary by gender. Using matched-pair designs, we tested our model in two field studies
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Are they more proactive or less engaged? Understanding employees' career proactivity after promotion failure through an attribution lens Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-31 Zhen Wang, Yao Song, Fubin Jiang
In existing research and practice, promotion failure is often depicted as a source of negative consequences. However, this study deviates from traditional wisdom and argues that promotion failure has the potential to be a positive motivator. Integrating attribution theory, cognitive theories of repetitive thoughts, and the integrative model of career proactivity, we investigate how different attributions
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Humble leader, successful follower: Linking leader humility with follower career outcomes via leader competence from an implicit leadership theory perspective Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Jie Zhong, Chao Ma, Zhen Xiong Chen, Li Zhang, Xue Zhang
Drawing on implicit leadership theory, this study examines the key conditions under which leader humility facilitates the career outcomes of employees. First, considering both similar-attraction and opposite-attraction perspectives within implicit leadership theory, we propose two competing hypotheses, and suggest that leader humility interacts with follower narcissism to predict perceived leader competence
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The psychological experience of flexibility in the workplace: How psychological job control and boundary control profiles relate to the wellbeing of flexible workers Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Gabriele Boccoli, Maria Tims, Luca Gastaldi, Mariano Corso
Rather than studying workplace flexibility as the availability or usage of flexible work practices, in this study, we theorize workplace flexibility as a subjective psychological experience influenced by employees' perceptions of control over where and when they work (psychological job control) and control over their social boundaries (boundary control). Based on boundary and border theory, using a
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Nature, predictors, and outcomes of the psychological capital trajectories observed among upcoming police officers' undergoing vocational training Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-24 Nicolas Gillet, Alexandre J.S. Morin, Isabelle Huart, Hélène Coillot, Mathieu Fiolet, Evelyne Fouquereau
This study seeks to achieve a dynamic person-centered understanding of the nature of the psychological capital trajectories observed among upcoming police officers undergoing vocational training. Moreover, it seeks to document the predictive role of leader-member exchange and perceived organizational support in relation to these psychological capital trajectories, as well as the implications of these
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Stacking bricks or building a cathedral? How affective shifts shape perceptions of daily task significance Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-22 Jordan D. Nielsen, Amy E. Colbert
One of the most fundamental experiences of deriving positive meaning from work stems from perceptions of task significance. Although interactions with managers and beneficiaries can provide inspirational cues that make the significance of employees' work tasks salient (Grant, 2012, 2008), relying solely on an understanding of these discrete experiences may limit an employee's ability to consistently
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One who wishes to wear the crown, must bear its weight: How performance pressure benefits career-prospective employees in organizations Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Li Guo, Suosuo Jia, Xiongying Niu, Zhen Wang
Performance pressure is not uncommon in the field of human resource management, and it stands as a constant companion to those aspiring to advance their careers. Drawing on the appraisal theories of emotion and literature on fear and career prospects, this research explores how and when performance pressure fosters work-goal progress. Across two time-lagged, multi-industry field studies with full-time
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Hybrid work stressors and psychological withdrawal behavior: A moderated mediation model of emotional exhaustion and proactive personality Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Chih-Chieh Chu, Chun-Yi Chou
This study proposes a theoretical model of challenge/hindrance stressors of hybrid work on emotional and behavioral reactions based on the conservation of resources theory. We investigate a mediation model by incorporating emotional exhaustion as a mediator to connect the relationship between two stressors and psychological withdrawal behavior. In addition, we identify proactive personality as a key
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Moving away from, moving towards and moving against others: An adaptive multi-strategy approach to defend and build resources in self-protection mode Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Emma Russell, Jacqueline O'Reilly, Constantin Blome, Margherita Bussi, Heejung Chung, Mark Finney, Hakan Johansson, Margarita Leon, Janine Leschke, Lucia Mytna-Kurekova, Chiara Ruffa, Mi Ah. Schoyen, Matthias Thürer, Marge Unt, Rachel Verdin, Claire Wallace
In the face of extreme and enduring stressors, a self-protection coping mode can be entered to conserve resources (Conservation of Resources (COR) theory principle 4). Self-protection coping is underexplored in COR theory yet may offer insights about how people deal with the significant challenges posed by work today. We investigate this using a large-group collaborative auto-ethnography (CAE) with
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How future work self salience shapes the effects of interacting with artificial intelligence Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Julian Voigt, Karoline Strauss
The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world of work, leaving individuals wondering what AI means for the future of their career. The current research investigates the moderating role of future work self salience (FWSS) on the effect of interacting with AI on perceived control over one's future work self and proactive career behavior. In a first longitudinal experiment with
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Others matter when mothers return: An investigation of relational movement and its role in post-maternity leave reentry transitions Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Dana McDaniel Sumpter, Danna Greenberg, Emily Rosado-Solomon
Post-maternity leave reentry, the period when mothers return to work following a maternity leave, is a profound transition in a woman's life that often sets the foundation for her work and career progression. While scholars have looked at the intraindividual aspects of this transition, the experience of reentry extends beyond the returning mother. This transition occurs in a dynamic relational and
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Me, my work and AI: How radiologists craft their work and identity Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Fabienne Perez, Neil Conway, Jonathan Peterson, Olivier Roques
This study investigates the introduction of AI in the field of radiology through a multi-level analysis (individuals, organization, and profession). Drawing on in-depth interviews with 54 participants (radiologists, radiological technologists, managers, hospital directors, and engineers), we examined how radiologists perceive AI and respond through job crafting behaviors and identity work. The findings
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Enhancing person-job fit: Who needs a strengths-based leader to fit their job? Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Marianne van Woerkom, Robin Bauwens, Sait Gürbüz, Evelien Brouwers
Even though person-job fit (PJ fit) is a crucial predictor of employees' overall engagement and performance in their jobs, few studies have identified the mechanisms that enhance PJ fit during the employment relationship. Further, the models that do predict how PJ fit evolves over time are predominantly based on the idea that fit improves through individual adjustment processes by workers. This paper
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Blurred lines: The spillover and crossover effects of interpersonal experiences at work on family behaviors and well-being Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Remus Ilies, Jingxian Yao, Helen Pluut, Alyssa X. Liang, Qingxiong (Derek) Weng
Drawing on the spillover-crossover model, we examine both the enriching and conflicting effects of interpersonal experiences at work on the family domain using experience sampling methodology with 567 daily observations from 70 couples. As a positive spillover-crossover process, we find that employees' help provision at work indirectly and positively influences couples' relationship satisfaction, employees'
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The threat of electronic performance monitoring: Exploring the role of leader-member exchange on employee privacy invasion Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-17 Mauren S. Wolff, Jerod C. White, Martin Abraham, Claus Schnabel, Luisa Wieser, Cornelia Niessen
Advances in digitalization have led employers to increasingly adopt electronic performance monitoring technologies that allow supervisors to observe, analyze and evaluate not only employees' work activities, but also their cognitive and behavioral data. This has significant implications for employees' perceptions of privacy, and, in turn, for their basic needs, intrinsic motivation, and turnover intentions
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The bittersweet nature of adult family caregiving on workplace behaviors and attitudes Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Dawn S. Carlson, Matthew J. Quade, Min (Maggie) Wan, K. Michele Kacmar
Family caregivers, who are managing the demands of work while simultaneously giving care to an adult family member, are a growing segment of the workforce. The current paper explores the struggle and joys of family caregiving employees, who manage work demands while simultaneously caring for an adult family member. We developed and tested a theoretical model of 311 family caregivers in the U.S. workforce
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Technology and the changing nature of work Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Tara S. Behrend, Daniel M. Ravid, Cort W. Rudolph
The conceptualization of work and careers has evolved with technological advancements. From the steam engine to the internet, and now to digital technologies like AI and robotics, each era has redefined employment. These innovations offer safer, more meaningful work and broaden access. However, they also bring challenges such as the need for new skills and constant adaptation. This special issue includes
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Showing authentic examples of academic and career trajectories to influence college students' career exploration Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-23 Youjie Chen, René F. Kizilcec
College students increasingly use digital information resources to help them make academic and career decisions, but the effects of digital information tools on students' career exploration outcomes are not well understood. We investigate the impact of an online tool that shows the full sequence of course enrollments and the first career destination of recent graduates with matched interests. We conducted
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Technological support for lifelong learning: The application of a multilevel, person-centric framework Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Sibley F. Lyndgaard, Rebecca Storey, Ruth Kanfer
21st century career development is increasingly characterized by recurring participation in work-related skill learning, much of which is mediated by technology. However, integration of this technology into work-related lifelong learning contexts has been relatively atheoretical and non-systematic. Building on interdisciplinary adult learning research and our findings from several studies on an online
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Navigating career stages in the age of artificial intelligence: A systematic interdisciplinary review and agenda for future research Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Sarah Bankins, Stefan Jooss, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Mauricio Marrone, Anna Carmella Ocampo, Mindy Shoss
As artificial intelligence (AI) use expands within organizations, its influence is increasingly permeating careers and vocational domains. However, there is a notable lack of structured insights regarding AI's role in shaping individual career paths across career stages. To address this gap, we undertook a systematic literature review of 104 empirical articles, aiming to synthesize the scholarship
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Occupational exoskeletons: Supporting diversity and inclusion goals with technology Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Georgia T. Chao, Caroline Deal, Enzo Novi Migliano
Occupational exoskeletons are wearable devices that can augment a human worker's physical abilities. They are designed to protect the worker from physical stress and strain due to physically demanding tasks. They are also designed to increase a worker's ability to perform these tasks with less effort or to accommodate tasks with greater physical loads. There is a labor shortage for many physically
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Virtual voices: Exploring individual differences in chat and verbal participation in virtual meetings Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Liana M. Kreamer, Steven G. Rogelberg, Lev Tankelevitch, Sean Rintel
A key component of team performance is participation among group members. One widespread organizational function that provides a stage for participation is the workplace meeting. With the shift to remote work, roughly half of all meetings are conducted virtually. One encouraging opportunity that can elevate meeting participation in this context is the use of written chat. Chat offers a second avenue
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A mutually beneficial process: Accommodating work-family conflict and strengthening leader-subordinate relations Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Valerie J. Morganson, Michael T. Ford, Timothy D. Golden
The relationship between an employee and their immediate supervisor has an established impact on subordinate work-family conflict (WFC). Likewise, the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship is a resource to address WFC both proactively and on an episodic basis. This study draws from LMX literature as a foundation to test a resource and socio-cognitively-based process model. The model purports that
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“Anything you can do, I can do”: Examining the use of ChatGPT in situational judgement tests for professional program admission Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Harley Harwood, Nicolas Roulin, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal
We explored the transformative impact of ChatGPT on applicants' responses and performance in situational judgement tests (SJTs), as well as the role played by faking-prevention mechanisms, in two complementary studies. Study 1 examined how the availability of ChatGPT influenced response content and performance of real applicants ( = 107,805), who completed an SJT for admission before vs. after the
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Interests of the future: An integrative review and research agenda for an automated world of work Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Alexis Hanna, Christopher D. Nye, Andrew Samo, Chu Chu, Kevin A. Hoff, James Rounds, Frederick L. Oswald
Research on automation and the future of work is a major focus for both academics and practitioners due to technological changes disrupting the labor market and educational pathways. Although recent articles have published projections about the types of tasks and jobs most likely to be automated in the coming years, little attention has been devoted to how different types of vocational interests are
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Challenging organizational research theory and findings: A commentary on the neglected focus on vulnerable workers Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Pauline Schilpzand, Yaqing He, Brent Lyons, Catherine Midel Deen
In this commentary, we argue that studying vulnerable workers can challenge the established norms of organizational research, which mostly focuses on non-vulnerable employees. We highlight the significant differences in the experiences of vulnerable workers, which profoundly impact their professional lives, and often defy current organizational theories and research findings. Additionally, we explore
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Well-being and empowerment perceptions in a sudden shift to working from home Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Duncan J.R. Jackson, Amanda Jones, George Michaelides, Chris Dewberry
In the literature on the antecedents and mediators of employee well-being, there is little or no acknowledgement of sudden changes in the social and environmental context in which perceptions of well-being are formed. Contextual influences are rarely so impactful and unexpected as those associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. To continue operating within lockdown restrictions, many organizations, apart
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On your marks, get set, go! Jumping the hurdles of employability development at an early career stage Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Ricardo Rodrigues, Jasmijn van Harten, Nele De Cuyper, Ilke Grosemans, Christina Butler
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Diversity in the career lifecycle: A review and research agenda Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 Quinetta Roberson, Kevin Hoff, Rachael Pyram, Jordan Holmes
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Introducing a sustainable career ecosystem: Theoretical perspectives, conceptualization, and future research agenda Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 William E. Donald, Beatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden, Yehuda Baruch
Our paper advances the embryonic interest of combining the theoretical frameworks of sustainable career and career ecosystem into a sustainable career ecosystem theory by introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a new actor, spotlighting the need for liminality of the relationship between an individual and career practitioner, and presenting a new conceptual model. We begin by providing a brief
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A meta-analytic review of family supportive supervisor behaviors (FSSBs): Work-family related antecedents, outcomes, and a theory-driven comparison of two mediating mechanisms Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Yongxing Guo, Siqi Wang, Yasin Rofcanin, Mireia Las Heras
This quantitative review systematically integrates the antecedents and outcomes of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSBs) through bivariate meta-analysis and meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM). Utilizing data from 231 primary studies, which are drawn from 213 sources ( = 118, 100), we examined a set of hypotheses exploring the antecedents and consequences of FSSBs. We also conducted
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Working with a chronic health condition: The implications of proactive vitality management for occupational health and performance Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Emma M. Op den Kamp, Arnold B. Bakker, Maria Tims, Evangelia Demerouti, Jimmy J. de Wijs
Employees with a chronic disease are confronted with health problems, pain, and a limited energy reserve, which may hinder their day-to-day functioning at work. In the current study, we use proactive motivation and job demands-resources (JD-R) theories to hypothesize that chronically ill individuals may optimize their own well-being and work performance by using proactive vitality management (PVM)
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Longitudinal associations between the rates of change in family to work enrichment, leader-member exchange, and job satisfaction Journal of Vocational Behavior (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Ying Chen, Guozhen Zhao, Meng-Yu Cheng
By integrating the work-home resource model with the leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, we adopt a change perspective to examine the effects of the change rate in family-to-work enrichment (FWE) on that in job satisfaction through the change rate in LMX. Using a longitudinal, multilevel sample of 360 employees in 71 teams, the results of three waves of data over eight months reveal the FWE change