Career Development International: Volume 20 Issue 2

Trait-level and week-level regulatory focus as a motivation to craft a job

Paraskevas Petrou, Evangelia Demerouti

The purpose of this paper is to address regulatory focus (promotion vs prevention) as a trait-level variable and a week-level variable linked to employee job crafting behaviors…

Attachment anxiety in mentoring: the role of commitment

Laura F. Poteat, Kristen M. Shockley, Tammy D. Allen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating role of commitment in the relationship between protégés’ anxious attachment styles and feedback behaviors of both mentors and…

Employment status and employee service-oriented organizational citizenship behaviour: The mediating roles of internal mobility opportunity and job insecurity

Su-Fen Chiu, Shih-Tse Lin, Tzu-Shian Han

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of employment status on service-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) of customer contact employees. The authors…

To craft or not to craft: The relationships between regulatory focus, job crafting and work outcomes

Veerle Brenninkmeijer, Marleen Hekkert-Koning

The purpose of this paper is to examine relationships between regulatory focus, job crafting, work engagement and perceived employability. Regulatory focus theory distinguishes…

An integrative approach to identifying factors related to long-term career commitments: A military example

Mark H. Jordan, T.J. Gabriel, Russell Teasley, Wendy J. Walker, Mike Schraeder

The purpose of this paper is to examine an initial set of characteristics and traits that may reduce officer recruitment turnover by increasing a cadet’s decision to contract vs…

Perceived employability and psychological functioning framed by gain and loss cycles

Dorien Vanhercke, Kaisa Kirves, Nele De Cuyper, Marijke Verbruggen, Anneleen Forrier, Hans De Witte

The purpose of this paper is to test the gain and loss cycle ideas from the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory with regard to perceived employability and psychological…