How entrepreneurial are students who intend to become academics? – A study of career motives

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nora Hesse ◽  
Jürgen Brünjes
Keyword(s):  
Career Motives

scholarly journals Die loopbaanpatrone van Suid-Afrikaanse bestuurders

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. G. Schreuder
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Important Prerequisite ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Career Preferences ◽  
Career Motives

Career paths of South African Managers. The changing nature of work results in upward mobility within organisations becoming increasingly limited. This requires individuals to rethink their careers. An important prerequisite for this is adequate self-knowledge. Preferred career paths are often related to the "career culture" of an organisation, which is often not aligned with individual motives and needs. The aim of this study was to determine the match between career preferences and career motives. The results on the whole indicate a poor match between these constructs. Recommendations are made on the basis of these findings. Opsomming Die veranderende aard van werk veroorsaak dat opwaartse mobiliteit in organisasies meer beperk raak. Dit verg dat individue opnuut oor hulle loopbane sal moet besin. 'n Belangrike voorvereiste hiervoor is voldoende selfkennis. Die loopbaanpad wat individue verkies hou dikwels verband met die loopbaankultuur van 'n organisasie en is nie altyd in ooreenstemming met hulle eie motiewe en behoeftes nie. Die doel van hierdie studie was om te bepaal in waiter mate daar 'n passing is tussen die respondente se loopbaanvoorkeure en hulle loopbaanmotiewe. Die resultate dui oor die algemeen op 'n swak passing. Aanbevelings word op grond van die bevindinge gemaak.

Public managers’ networking and innovative work behavior: the importance of career incentives

2017 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tjeerd Zandberg ◽  
Fernando Nieto Morales
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Work Behavior ◽  
Innovative Behavior ◽  
Innovative Work Behavior ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Public Managers ◽  
Innovative Work ◽  
Career Motives

From theories on middle managers’ entrepreneurship in private organizations, it is known that the structural network position of middle managers influences their innovative work behavior. Our study investigates if in a governmental setting, the intra-organizational networking behavior of public managers has a similar positive influence on innovative work behavior. As networking mechanisms may depend on the particular context and organizational norms, we also investigate the influence of networking motivations. According to social network research in private enterprises, social network links can be used to advance individual careers. According to public management and Public Service Motivation theories, public managers have a collective orientation aimed at producing public goods. Therefore, we investigate if, next to intra-organizational networking, an individual career motive or a collective motivation for networking explains innovative work behavior. In a case study on public managers of a municipality in Mexico City, we find a strong influence of networking on innovative work behavior. We also find support for additional influences of individual career motives, but no evidence for collective motivations. Points for practitioners Intra-organizational networking of public managers leads to increased innovative behavior in a governmental setting. In addition, when aiming at increasing innovative behavior, individual career motives seem to have stronger positive effects than collective motivations (such as teamwork-related motivations).

Certainty of career choice at the beginning of university studies - general strategies and attributions in achievement situations, and career motives

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Hirsto
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Stepwise Regression ◽  
First Year ◽  
Paper Sample ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
On Certainty ◽  
University Studies ◽  
Task Avoidance ◽  
Career Motives ◽  
And Task

Certainty of career choice at the beginning of university studies - general strategies and attributions in achievement situations, and career motives The focus of this paper is on certainty of career choice at the beginning of university studies, and how this relates to students' career motives and more general strategies and attributions in achievement situations. The paper sample comprised 137 first-year students of theology, who completed a questionnaire developed on the basis of earlier studies on motives for studying theology and certainty of career choice. The questionnaire included a section on strategies and attributions in achievement situations (SAQ), a section covering the reasons and motives for starting to study theology and a scale measuring uncertainty of career choice. According to the results, uncertainty of career choice related positively to being assured of a place to study, and negatively to having a spiritual calling, a helping orientation and self-fulfillment. In the first year of university studies it also related positively to task avoidance and social pessimism, and negatively to success expectation. Stepwise regression analysis showed that being assured of a place to study, having a spiritual calling and low self-fulfillment explained 57 percent of the total variance. The strategies and attributions the students used in achievement situations were very modest predictors of uncertainty in career choice. Success expectation and task avoidance explained nine percent of the variance.

Black-Hundred Priests Between Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism: by the Example of Archbishops Alexiy (Dorotnitsyn), Agapit (Vishnevsky) and Archpriest Nestor (Sharaevsky)

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 335-354
Author(s):  
Anton A. Chemakin
Keyword(s):  
National Union ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Career Motives ◽  
The Revolution

The article is devoted to the examination of the work of the three priests who before the revolution were involved in the activities of the Union of the Russian People, the All-Russian National Union and Kiev Club of the Russian Nationalists, and in 1917 joined the Ukrainian camp: Archbishops Alexiy (Dorotnitsyn), Agapit (Vishnevsky) and Archpriest Nestor (Sharaevsky). The author of the article tries to find the answer to the question what circumstances and motives made them to transfer from Russian to Ukrainian nationalists. He comes to the conclusion that Alexiy and Agapit found themselves in the Ukrainian movement exclusively due to conjunctural reasons, and only Sharaevsky was enough sincere and went through certain ideological evolution, though with him the career motives also predominated.

Examining the Factorial Validity of the Entrepreneurial Career Motives Scale: A Five-Nation Comparison

2020 ◽  
pp. 089484531989887
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Affum-Osei ◽  
Sharon G. Goto ◽  
June Chun Yeung ◽  
Rong Wang ◽  
Hodar Lam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Factorial Validity ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Career Motives

This study validates Shane et al.’s Entrepreneurial Career Motives Scale across nations. A total sample of 948 undergraduate and postgraduate students from five nations (China = 229, Hong Kong = 213, Holland = 136, United States = 155, and Ghana = 215) were recruited to complete a survey designed to measure their entrepreneurial motives and other related constructs. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the hypothesized four-factor structure, namely, perceived recognition, sense of independence, pursuit of learning, and perceived roles. Results of the measurement invariance comparisons satisfactorily established measurement equivalence of the scale across nations, language versions, and genders. Both convergent and discriminant validities were established as the motives were associated with different constructs in an expected manner. Interestingly, different patterns in the entrepreneurial career motives emerged across nations. Overall, our findings provide support for the construct validity of the Entrepreneurial Motives Scale. Implications for practice, limitations, and future research directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Impact of Career Progression on Employee Productivity in Banking Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 386-391
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Bank Employees ◽  
Career Motives ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

Career development refers to the path where one is proceeding in his work life. As the career of an employee spans over his/her entire lifetime, it has to be designed and planned appropriately. This planning depends on various factors like: Need, Abilities, Basic values, Career motives, Destiny and the available opportunities.A recent study by the Institute of Manpower Studies has found that technology has had an influence on career progression within financial institutions resulting in an expansion of the ‘professional’ tier.The study is based on a survey using a structured questionnaire and data collected from 335 bank employees. Statistical methods like factor analysis, ANOVA and Regression were used to analyze the data.

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