Career Development International: Volume 8 Issue 6

Retention strategies in aerospace turnover: a case study

Steven H. Applebaum, John Wunderlich, Elliot Greenstone, Danny Grenier, Barbara Shapiro, Donald Leroux, Felix Troeger

Reviews the literature on organizational commitment as a factor contributing to successful retention strategies focusing on the critical aerospace industry. Other areas reviewed…

Strategies for living: moving from the balance paradigm

Stephen K. Hacker, Toni L. Doolen

This paper presents a new paradigm for conceptualizing the relationship between individual, family, and work. The language and focus of the balance approach is limiting and keeps…

Re‐incarnating life in the careers of women

Judith K. Pringle, Kathi McCulloch Dixon

Career research has been synonymous with paid work. The ensuing result is a picture of women’s careers framed by men’s experiences. In this paper career development theory is…

Predictors of workaholic behaviors among Australian psychologists

Ronald J. Burke, Zena Burgess, Fay Oberklaid

This study tested a model predicting workaholic job behaviors among Australian psychologists. The model and measures had been used in a previous study of Canadian business school…

Tertiary student perceptions of the benefits of professional career management education: an exploratory study

Stephanie Miller, Raquel Liciardi

Responding to the relatively poor employment outcomes of university graduates, Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia has embarked on a strategy of investment in career…

Staff increasingly likely to resist relocation by companies because of family ties

Indian IT industry short of specialists

Editorial

Stephen Gibb

IT staff reap rewards of training

Why employers should take notice when employees grumble about pay

Beauty may be only skin deep, but 40 per cent of candidates think it will get them the job

Awards for Excellence

UK seeks to get female scientists back to work