The Future Work Self and Calling: The Mediational Role of Life Meaning

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 977-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunyu Zhang ◽  
Andreas Hirschi ◽  
Anne Herrmann ◽  
Jia Wei ◽  
Jinfu Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Life Meaning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Future Work Self

The role of thriving at work and overall fairness in the future work self–employee creativity relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Yang ◽  
Zhongqiu Li ◽  
Yingying Su ◽  
Xue Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Employee Creativity ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Future Work Self ◽  
Thriving At Work

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze why and when the future work self affects employee creativity. Design/methodology/approach Survey data were collected from 171 supervisor–employee dyads in four Chinese enterprises. Findings The results indicate that the future work self has a positive effect on employee creativity. Further, thriving at work mediates the links between the future work self and employee creativity. The authors also theorize that overall fairness moderates the positive effects of the future work self on thriving at work and employee creativity. Originality/value The study supports the self-determination perspective regarding the future work self and strengthens the application of this perspective in an effort to understand the relationship between the future work self and employee creativity.

scholarly journals Relationships between Interpersonal Trust and Knowledge Sharing in Workplace: The Mediational Role of Prosocial Motives

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weixu Ding ◽  
Eugene Choi ◽  
Atsushi Aoyama
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Interpersonal Trust ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Prosocial Motives ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
The Relationship

This study is different from the usual cases that testing the intuitive factor as rewarding that affects the employees’ knowledge sharing. In this study, the focus shifts to concentrating on the emotional factors such as interpersonal trust and the prosocial motives. Empirical methods are used to test the hypotheses, and the results show that interpersonal trust affects employees’ knowledge sharing significantly. Moreover, the prosocial motives have been evidenced that it moderately mediates the relationship between interpersonal trust and knowledge sharing. This study has well evidenced all the hypotheses and gives suggestions for the future research at the end.

scholarly journals Supervisory Career Support and Workplace Wellbeing in Chinese Healthcare Workers: The Mediating Role of Career Commitment and the Moderating Role of Future Work Self-Salience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 5572
Author(s):  
Guangyi Xu ◽  
Zhen Li ◽  
Hongli Wang
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Career Commitment ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Career Support ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Future Work Self

In the context of the sustainability goals of organizations, there is a dilemma regarding enhancing healthcare workers’ career commitment and wellbeing, especially during the COVID-19 crisis. This study focuses on the underlying mechanism in the relationship between supervisory career support and employee wellbeing. Drawing upon the career motivation perspective, we investigate the mediating role of career commitment and moderating effect of future work self-salience (FWSS) in this relationship. Two-wave data were collected from a sample of 213 full-time healthcare workers from three public hospitals located in Southern China. Results in this study revealed that supervisory career support influences career commitment in health workers, which in turn enhances their wellbeing at the workplace. Moreover, the effect of supervisory career support on career commitment was found to be stronger for individuals with low FWSS compared to those with high FWSS. These findings also enlighten us on how to enhance employees’ career commitment and workplace wellbeing.

THE ROLE OF SELF-REGULATION AND LIFE-MEANING ORIENTATIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF ADULTHOOD

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
Sergei I. Konzhin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Life Meaning ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cognitive Semantic ◽  
Active Implementation ◽  
Quantitative Assessments

The results of a theoretical and empirical study of the image of the future, its functions are presented, predictors of the image of the future are identified, which are associated with its formation, they are conscious self-regulation associated with the image of the future through procedurality and active implementation of the planned, as well as life-meaning orientations that act as cognitive semantic fullness of the modus of the future. Their role in the formation of the image of the future, the influence on its qualitative and quantitative assessments at the stages of early and middle adulthood is determined. The hypothesis is verified that at the stages of early adulthood there is a reorientation, the specificity of life-meaning orientations and their stability are formed. It is shown that a high orientation towards the future, the relevance of self-determination, as well as a situation of uncertainty in front of the future remain, in this regard, self-regulation plays a leading role in the formation of the image of the future. At the stage of middle maturity, the consolidation and implementation of life meanings and plans, the active embodiment of the image of the future, are already taking place, while self-regulation fades into the background. It was found that the qualitative and quantitative assessments of the image of the future at different stages of adulthood are specific.

scholarly journals Digitalisation and Sustainable Work: obstacles and pathways

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-197
Author(s):  
Jan Jan Johansson ◽  
Lena Abrahamsson
Keyword(s):  
New Technology ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Work ◽  
The Way

Work is a central part of our lives in many aspects. Half of our awake time is for most of us performed as paid work. At work, we create the values we need to live the life we desire. At work, we are socialized and shaped into the human beings we are. We are all concerned about how our work will be in the future; will we be able to handle the new technology or will we be replaced by a robot? Do we see the new technology as The wolf is coming or God's gift to mankind? This is an existential question and the future work is shaped here and now. This means that we need to get a picture of what is happening so we can act, but we also need a vision of where we want to go. Our mission as a researcher is to find the pathways to the Sustainable work, but in order to to find the way, we sometimes have to take on the role of the wolf and ask the uncomfortable questions.

scholarly journals Risk Intelligence as a Resource in Career Transition: The Role of College Satisfaction on the Visions about Future Jobs

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1030-1043
Author(s):  
Ernesto Lodi ◽  
Andrea Zammitti ◽  
Paola Magnano
Keyword(s):  
Transition Period ◽  
Well Being ◽  
College Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Academic Satisfaction ◽  
Subjective Risk ◽  
Mediational Role ◽  
Risk Intelligence ◽  
Future Work

(1) Background: University transition is a critical step in career construction due to the uncertainty and unpredictability of socioeconomic conditions; these conditions compel people to manage a greater quantity of perceived risks associated with their career projects than in the past, and to face unexpected situations that could compromise their quality of life in educational and work contexts. After all, experiencing well-being during the university path can undoubtedly affect the visions of one’s future work, especially when a transition period is nearby. The present study aimed to explore the role of subjective risk intelligence in expectations about future work, analyzing the potential mediational role of academic satisfaction in this relationship. (2) Methods: A longitudinal study was carried out on 352 Italian university students at the end of the degree course. We used the following measures: in T1, Subjective risk intelligence scale, College Satisfaction scale; in T2, three items assessing the expectations about future work. (3) Results: The main findings showed that subjective risk intelligence has both direct and indirect effects (through the mediation of college satisfaction) on the expectations about future work. (4) Conclusions: The ability to manage risks, also through the contribution of domain-specific satisfaction, can lead to positive expectations toward one’s future work. This could increase the likelihood to perform career-related behaviors in a more proactive way if people have high risk management skills and high levels of academic satisfaction with their university path during transition.

scholarly journals University Pathways of Graduate Students: Professionalization, Innovation and Identity. A French-Argentine Comparative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Miriam Aparicio
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Fourth Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Face ◽  
Education And Employment ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Working World

This article presents findings from two studies carried out with fourth level university students in Argentina, namely Argentine PhDs working at UNCuyo, and with a second group made up of PhDs who are taking part in Professionalization programs (Programs of International Cooperation) in France. This is a comparative study. It is thought that after showing a certain level of excellence and being in contact with other cultures, differences between the groups may exist in terms of perspectives for future work, the role of innovation and competencies to be developed. Various hypotheses were considered. Both studies included common variables related to issues that affect, on the one hand, the effectivity and quality of the University as it relates to the working world and, on the other hand, personal and professional pathways. We focused on Professionalization, Identity and Innovation, variables that involve individuals and contexts interacting with one another. The methodology was quanti-qualitative. Techniques used were semi-structured surveys, interviews and focus groups. The findings show convergences, divergences and silences in the different groups with respect to Innovation, both in its conception and roots and with respect to the future world of work (effects). The findings renew interest in education and employment policies in the face of the demands and changes that the future workplace will require.

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