Career Development International: Volume 4 Issue 4

Cultural diversity: challenges facing the management of cross‐border business careers

Alan Fish

As organisations respond to changes in cross‐border business activity career practices more attuned to differences in business and cultural practices are required if…

International mobility policies and practices: are there gender differences in importance ratings?

Victor Y. Haines, Tania Saba

Because the low participation rate of women in international management is problematic, this study seeks to identify which international mobility policies and practices…

An investigation into the differential profile of predictors of objective and subjective career success

Ghulam R. Nabi

This research examined the different profile of individual, opportunity structure, and career strategy variables related to both objective (salary) and subjective…

Career success: the effects of personality

Victor P. Lau, Margaret A. Shaffer

Based on social learning theories, this conceptual paper attempts to develop a theoretical framework and testable hypotheses linking the relationship between certain…

Assisting economic transformation in central and eastern Europe: correlates of program usefulness

Ronald J. Burke, Graeme MacDermid

This exploratory study examined correlates of value reported by participants from an international management and business development program. Data were collected from 51…

Accelerate executive development – at your peril!

Douglas T. Hall

This paper examines accelerated development and fast track managers. Using the example of Sears, Roebuck & Co, the progression of accelerated development managers was…

Executive development – why successful executives continue to change

Stephen L. Guinn

Postulates that successful executives are those who continue to learn and to challenge themselves throughout their careers, thereby extending their own careers as well as…

Simon’s story: an intimate history of career change

Lew Perren, Richard Morland

Simon’s story is presented here; it tells of his change from his familiar world as a claims manager to an ambiguous world of consultants and projects. Simon recounts a…