Career Development International: Volume 25 Issue 4

When career dissatisfaction leads to employee job crafting: The role of job social support and occupational self-efficacy

Hai-jiang Wang, Xiao Chen, Chang-qin Lu

Career dissatisfaction can be defined as an unpleasant or a negative emotional state that results from the appraisal of one’s career. This negative affective appraisal might…

Day-level job crafting and service-oriented task performance: The mediating role of meaningful work and work engagement

Inge L. Hulshof, Evangelia Demerouti, Pascale M. Le Blanc

This study examines whether job crafting is related to service-oriented task performance (i.e. performance aimed at providing high-quality services) through meaningful work and…

Leaders, teams and work engagement: a basic needs perspective

Wouter Robijn, Martin C. Euwema, Wilmar B. Schaufeli, Jana Deprez

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between engaging leadership and open conflict norms in teams, with work engagement. A mediating role of basic needs…

Women managing women: hierarchical relationships and career impact

Jouharah M. Abalkhail

This paper explores the experiences of women in Saudi Arabia who have been managed by other women, and examines how junior women perceive senior women's role in advancing their…

Theorizing parental intervention and young adults' career development: a social influence perspective

Yan Liu, Yina Mao, Chi-Sum Wong

Drawing on the social influence literature and proposing parental intervention as a social influence process, this study seeks to theorize why parental intervention occurs and how…

Linking career adaptability to supervisor-rated task performance: a serial mediation model

Jeffrey Haynie, C. Brian Flynn, David Herda

Based on a combination of career construction theory (CCT) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, this study proposes and examines a serial mediation model connecting…