The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Temporary Employment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Labor Studies ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

The Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search offers a first comprehensive and timely overview of the state of the art thinking and empirical knowledge in the areas of job loss and job search. Multidisciplinary in nature, the 31 chapters in this handbook offer insights into the diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from which job loss and job search have been studied, such as psychology, sociology, labor studies, and economics. Discussing the antecedents and consequences of job loss as well as further circumstances besides job loss that may call for an intense job search, the handbook presents in depth and up-to-date knowledge on antecedents and consequences of job loss and on methods and processes of job-search and further points readers towards stimulating directions for future research. It also addresses the unique circumstances faced by different populations during their job-search, such as entrants to the labor market, job-to-job, unemployed, and mature-aged job seekers, as well as international job-seekers or people with a career in temporary employment.

Networking as a Job-Search Behavior and Career Management Strategy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica L. Forret
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Career Management ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
New Jobs

Networking is often cited as a key to job-search success; however, relatively little scholarly research on networking as a job-search behavior exists. The purpose of this chapter is to review the literature on networking and its relevance for job-search success and career management more broadly. The use of networking for both obtaining new jobs at different employers as well as advancing upward in one’s current organization is considered. This chapter describes the importance of networking for developing career competencies, how networking can enhance a job seeker’s social network, and barriers faced by women and minorities in building their social networks. The multiple ways in which networking has been measured are described, along with the antecedents and outcomes of networking behavior pertinent to job seekers. This chapter discusses the implications of networking as a job-search behavior for job seekers, career counselors, and organizations and concludes with future research suggestions for scholars.

Navigating the Turbulent Waters of Career Transitions

2017 ◽  
pp. 1022-1035
Author(s):  
Lynn M. Joseph ◽  
Nancy Kymn Harvin Rutigliano ◽  
Amy Frost
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Personal Control ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Emotional Resilience ◽  
Job Transitions ◽  
Personal Impact ◽  
Growth Opportunity ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

Leaders, managers, professionals, and employees throughout organizations worldwide often face a large number of job transitions, many unexpected, in their careers. Job loss is widely recognized as one of life's more traumatic experiences. It is a stressful, life-changing event—one that can lead to negative mental and physical health consequences and jeopardize financial security and relationships. In addition, mid- and late-career job seekers face unique job-search issues and challenges. Career transition, however, can also be a positive event and growth opportunity, especially when one has prepared in advance for the possible personal impact of widespread organizational restructuring and downsizing. Advance preparation supports career and emotional resilience. This chapter presents challenges surrounding job loss, discusses proven strategies and processes for those in transition, and offers the research-based tool of guided imagery as a means to increase resilience, perceptions of personal control, and job search self-efficacy along with speed of reemployment.

Job Loss and Job Search: A Social-Cognitive and Self-Regulation Perspective

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Kanfer ◽  
Gina M. Bufton
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Involuntary Job Loss ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Goal Striving ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Made In

This chapter reviews social-cognitive and self-regulatory perspectives on involuntary job loss and subsequent job search. We begin by organizing different social-cognitive and self-regulatory perspectives along the temporal continuum of job loss and job search, and discuss the experience of job loss and its impact on the individual during subsequent job search. Using a motivational/self-regulatory frame, we then review findings related to goal generation and goal striving and outline important considerations for research design, including temporal, social, and measurement issues. Finally, we highlight the successes that have been made in the field thus far, and provide suggestions for promising future research avenues.

Too Old to Tango? Job Loss and Job Search Among Older Workers

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute-Christine Klehe ◽  
Irene E. De Pater ◽  
Jessie Koen ◽  
Mari Kira
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Perceived Employability ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Nonmonetary Benefits ◽  
Coping With Job Loss

Older workers are often shielded from job loss by high tenure, yet are struck particularly harshly when seeking reemployment after job loss. This article combines earlier research on coping with job loss and job search with insights on employability for older workers. We outline the situation of older workers, highlighting their vulnerability to possible job-loss and to stereotypes that may lower their perceived employability. Then we outline how this may place older workers in precarious situations regarding (a) the threat of losing their jobs, (b) suffering from loss of nonmonetary benefits (or latent functions) associated with work, (c) having different and fewer coping options than younger job-seekers, and (d) facing fewer chances of finding reemployment. Older workers face an uphill battle when searching for reemployment, which is partially explained by retirement as an alternative coping reaction to age-related stereotypes, discrimination that undermines older workers’ employability, and other factors.

Job-Search Behavior as a Multidimensional Construct: A Review of Different Job-Search Behaviors and Sources

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greet van Hoye
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Unidimensional Construct ◽  
Search Behaviors ◽  
Search Quality

Both theoretical models of job search and empirical research findings suggest that job-search behavior is not a unidimensional construct. This chapter addresses the multidimensionality of job-search behavior and provides a systematic review of the different job-search behaviors and sources studied in the job-search literature and their relationships with antecedent variables and employment outcomes. Organized within three major dimensions (effort/intensity, content/direction, and temporal/persistence), job-search effort and intensity, job-search strategies, preparatory and active job-search behaviors, formal and informal job sources, specific job-search behaviors, job-search quality, job-search dynamics, and job-search persistence are discussed. This review strongly suggests that it is essential to consider all the dimensions of job-search behavior for understanding job-search success in both practice and research. This study points to a number of key implications for job seekers and employment counselors as well as crucial directions for future research.

Goal Setting and Control Theory: Implications for Job Search

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary P. Latham ◽  
Mary B. Mawritz ◽  
Edwin A. Locke
Keyword(s):  
Control Theory ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Goal Setting ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Behavioral Sciences ◽  
And Control

The benefit of using theories in the behavioral sciences for job search is that they facilitate predicting, explaining, and influencing behavior. This chapter compares and contrasts two such theories, namely, goal setting and control theory. Empirical research, emanating from these two theories on job search, is reviewed. The chapter closes with a checklist for job seekers and suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Urbano ◽  
Andreu Turro ◽  
Mike Wright ◽  
Shaker Zahra
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
Current State ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
State Of Research

AbstractThis article analyzes the state of the art of the research on corporate entrepreneurship, develops a conceptual framework that connects its antecedents and consequences, and offers an agenda for future research. We review 310 papers published in entrepreneurship and management journals, providing an assessment of the current state of research and, subsequently, we suggest research avenues in three different areas: corporate entrepreneurship antecedents, dimensions and consequences. Even though a significant part of the overall corporate entrepreneurship literature has appeared in the last decade, most literature reviews were published earlier. These reviews typically cover a single dimension of the corporate entrepreneurship phenomenon and, therefore, do not provide a global perspective on the existing literature. In addition, corporate entrepreneurship has been studied from different fields and there are different approaches and definitions to it. This limits our understanding of accumulated knowledge in this area and hampers the development of further research. Our review addresses these shortcomings, providing a roadmap for future research.

International Job Search

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Zikic ◽  
Derin Kent ◽  
Julia Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Search Behaviors ◽  
National Economies

As globalization and integration of national economies continues unabated, an increasing number of people are looking for work outside oftheir home countries. Moreover, rather than waiting to be sent overseas by an employer, as might be the case for corporate expatriate assignees, a growing number of people are independently engaging in international job search. In this chapter, we review the literature on these international job seekers, focusing specifically on immigrants and self-initiated expatriates. First, we consider the diverse motives and contextual factors that drive this international job search; second, we look at the personal and cultural factors serving as antecedents for specific job-search behaviors. We then consider how job-search behaviors—in combination with personal factors and host country contexts—influence international job-search outcomes. Throughout this discussion we identify similarities and differences between immigrants and self-initiated expatriates while acknowledging that the boundaries between different groups of international job seekers are blurred. We conclude the chapter with a discussion of areas for future research.

Employed Job Seekers and Job-to-Job Search

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy R. Boswell ◽  
Richard G. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Search Behavior ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Search Activity ◽  
Job Search Behavior ◽  
Employee Withdrawal ◽  
Turnover Models

The purpose of this chapter is to review and integrate the existing research on job-to-job search behavior. The authors provide an overview of the various job-search and employee withdrawal/turnover models followed by a review of the prior empirical findings on the processes, antecedents, and outcomes of job-search behavior within the context of employed individuals. An important focus of this paper is the authors’ explicit focus on the varying objectives an employee may have for engaging in job-search activity. The chapter concludes by discussing developing issues in this research area and offering directions for future research to enhance our understanding of job-to-job search behavior.

(Dis)embodied Job Search Communication Training: Comparative critical ethnographic analysis of materiality and discourse during the unequal search for work

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 1251-1275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela N. Gist-Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Communication Training ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Support Organizations ◽  
Job Searches ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis

Unemployment can be extremely challenging to manage. Depending on an individual’s social status, unemployment experiences can differ greatly. The longer people grapple with unemployment the more likely they are to seek help from unemployment support organizations. This study takes a comparative, critical ethnographic approach to the study of job search communication training at two separate unemployment support organizations considering intersections of social class and race. The analysis uses a communication lens in order to unpack communication expectations and assumptions embedded into the culture of unemployment support organizations that are tailored to different social class and racial groups. The findings reveal that the job search communication trainings are communicatively biased and divergent. Inequality molds and shapes the process of job search communication training and the progress of job searches. Working-class job seekers are required to communicatively assimilate during training while they manage material reality to survive. Upper-middle-class job seekers refine existing communication skill sets in order to search for work and rarely struggle to manage material needs. The findings point to important implications and areas for future research in workforce studies.

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