scholarly journals Diversity Exiting the Academy: Influential Factors for the Career Choice of Well-Represented and Underrepresented Minority Scientists

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. ar41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebekah L. Layton ◽  
Patrick D. Brandt ◽  
Ashalla M. Freeman ◽  
Jessica R. Harrell ◽  
Joshua D. Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Faculty Advisor ◽  
Minority Scientists

A national sample of PhD-trained scientists completed training, accepted subsequent employment in academic and nonacademic positions, and were queried about their previous graduate training and current employment. Respondents indicated factors contributing to their employment decision (e.g., working conditions, salary, job security). The data indicate the relative importance of deciding factors influencing career choice, controlling for gender, initial interest in faculty careers, and number of postgraduate publications. Among both well-represented (WR; n = 3444) and underrepresented minority (URM; n = 225) respondents, faculty career choice was positively associated with desire for autonomy and partner opportunity and negatively associated with desire for leadership opportunity. Differences between groups in reasons endorsed included: variety, prestige, salary, family influence, and faculty advisor influence. Furthermore, endorsement of faculty advisor or other mentor influence and family or peer influence were surprisingly rare across groups, suggesting that formal and informal support networks could provide a missed opportunity to provide support for trainees who want to stay in faculty career paths. Reasons requiring alteration of misperceptions (e.g., limited leadership opportunity for faculty) must be distinguished from reasons requiring removal of actual barriers. Further investigation into factors that affect PhDs’ career decisions can help elucidate why URM candidates are disproportionately exiting the academy.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Career Choice of Business Students in the Senior High Schools: A Study of Selected Schools in the Cape Coast Metropolis

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
John Archison Duku ◽  
Leticia Bosu ◽  
Dominic Ekow Ansah ◽  
Abigail Achiaa Agyapong ◽  
Abigail Afia Bafowaah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Schools ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Business Students ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Career Counselling ◽  
Cape Coast ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Analyze Data

Abstract Factors affecting business students’ choice of career in accounting and factors affecting business students’ inability to choose a career in accounting remains unclear. We used SPSS to analyze data collected from four randomly selected senior high schools in the central region of Ghana through questionnaires. This paper investigated the influences of job opportunities, personal interest, family influence, social status, peer influence, salary expectation, weakness in mathematics, time it takes to become an accountant, and stress involved in the accounting career. The paper then revealed the effects of these influencing factors. Though other factors were found to have substantial effects, the results clearly shows that high salary expectation and job opportunities are the most influential factors that influences a business student’s choice to choose or not to choose a career in accounting. These results could be used as a reference for educational reforms and career counselling.

Family influence on career decisions: perceptions of Latin American CEOs

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Blanco ◽  
Mariela N. Golik
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Family Factors ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Literature

PurposeThe career is a space where family and work lives amalgamate. The role of work for the individual, and the meaning of work within the culture, will determine the relevance of family. This study investigates CEOs' perception about conjugal family influence on career decisions, and it examines family factors.Design/methodology/approachThrough a qualitative study, 22 Latin American CEOs who work for multinational firms were interviewed in a semi-structured way.FindingsNot all career decisions were influenced by conjugal family. CEOs varied in the extent to which they considered their families when reflecting on their career decisions. Expatriation, joining or quitting an organization and change of area of work were found as those decisions perceived to be influenced by conjugal family. Family support, family structure and family demands and responsibilities were identified as the family factors involved. In spite of the role salience, family factors influenced some of CEOs' career decisions, in part, due to the cultural characteristics of the Latin American environment. The instrumental support of the extended family, as part of collectivist societies, was also evidenced.Practical implicationsA better understanding of the family influenced decisions and family factors involved may enhance individual career decision-making as well as organizational career management processes and public initiatives.Originality/valueThis study contributes to family and career literature, being the first one to explore the conjugal family influence upon CEOs' career decisions.

scholarly journals Personal, Socio-Cultural and Environmental Factors Associated with Smoking Among Female Students at University of Lusaka, Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-103
Author(s):  
Francesca Chishimba Kasonka ◽  
◽  
Diana Mannan ◽  
Theresa Lesa Chisoso ◽  
Brian Chanda Chiluba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Adverse Health Effects ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
The University

Tobacco use is one of the most preventable causes of premature death globally, yet statistics show that there has been an increase of female smokers. Hence a need to understand why smoking prevalence continues despite the overwhelming data on adverse health effects. The aim of this study was to explore personal, socio-cultural, and environmental factors that are associated with smoking among female university students of University of Lusaka. A qualitative case study design was conducted with a sample 12 female students from the University of Lusaka. Snowball sampling was utilized. Female students smoking tobacco were predominantly associated with the desire for personal gratification, to feel accepted by their peers who smoke, to express female independenceand freedom and exposure to a male family member who smokes at younger age. Socio-cultural factors such as such as peer influence, family influence and female modernity in society were the major influencers of smoking in the female students, and environmental factors such as the lack of responsiveness to Zambia’s anti-smoking campaigns and a gap in the enforcement of anti-smoking legislation in Zambia also played an indirect role in facilitating smoking among female student. Anti-smoking campaigns could try and consider evaluating interventions from a male and female perspective respectively.

scholarly journals The Effect of Career Decisions on Entrepreneurial Intention Levels of University Students Studying Sport Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4a) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Kadir Yildiz
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
University Students ◽  
Career Choice ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Career Decisions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
Practical Implications

This study investigates the entrepreneurial intention levels and career decisions of a sample of 340 university students studying sport sciences. Entrepreneurship refers to a career-related choice that is driven by a risk-taking and innovation imperative. Entrepreneurs of the future are expected to make their career related choices well before they move into labor markets. In this context, this study attempts to designate young adults’ entrepreneurial intentions which are considered to be highly related with their career decisions. The study also tests the potential effects of career decisions on entrepreneurial intentions. The findings of the study evidence the significant effect of conscious career choice on entrepreneurial propensity. A blind career choice is found to be also correlated with entrepreneurial intentions, albeit less so than the conscious career choice. The environmental factors subscale of career choice proves to be insignificant in terms of entrepreneurial propensity within the scope of this study’s sample group. Findings are discussed with a view to practical implications.

scholarly journals MOBILITAS KARIR DALAM ORGANISASI: IMPLIKASI DARI SISTEM KARIR DAN PERAN LEADERSHIP

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Imronudin .
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Career Mobility ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
And Training

Career development in organization is an issue that getting more and more attention, both from academicians and practitioners. Career mobility in organization can't be separated from leadership role within, Moreover, career system applied in organization also has effect toward career mobility. Career mobility in an organization can be viewed either in individual context or organizational context. In an individual context, there are several factors affecting career mobility, such as social class; education and training; self-concept regarding career; career choice; family influence; age; gender; and race. At the same time, career mobility in an organizational context is affected by factors such as internal tabor market; career ladder; promotion; training and development; selection criteria and method; and internal competition.

Students Decided and Undecided About Career Choice: A Comparison of College Achievement and Student Involvement

1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willard Clark Lewallen
Keyword(s):  
Career Choice ◽  
Student Involvement ◽  
National Sample ◽  
College Achievement ◽  
Research Findings

The author examined a national sample of over 20,000 undecided and decided students on measures of college achievement and student involvement, investigating nine variables. Although small differences were found for three variables, this study generally supports other research findings that the two groups are more similar than different.

scholarly journals What Do I Want to Be with My PhD? The Roles of Personal Values and Structural Dynamics in Shaping the Career Interests of Recent Biomedical Science PhD Graduates

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Gibbs ◽  
Kimberly A. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Structural Dynamics ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Outcome Expectations ◽  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Career Interests ◽  
Underrepresented Minority ◽  
Faculty Careers ◽  
Primary Driver

Interest in faculty careers decreases as graduate training progresses; however, the process underlying career-interest formation remains poorly defined. To better understand this process and whether/how it differs across social identity (i.e., race/ethnicity, gender), we conducted focus groups with 38 biomedical scientists who received PhDs between 2006 and 2011, including 23 women and 18 individuals from underrepresented minority (URM) backgrounds. Objective performance and quality of advisor relationships were not significantly different between scientists with high versus low interest in faculty careers. Career interests were fluid and formed in environments that generally lacked structured career development. Vicarious learning shaped similar outcome expectations about academic careers for all scientists; however, women and URMs recounted additional, distinct experiences and expectations. Scientists pursuing faculty careers described personal values, which differed by social identity, as their primary driver. For scientists with low interest in faculty careers, a combination of values, shared across social identity, and structural dynamics of the biomedical workforce (e.g., job market, grant funding, postdoc pay, etc.) played determinative roles. These findings illuminate the complexity of career choice and suggest attracting the best, most diverse academic workforce requires institutional leaders and policy makers go beyond developing individual skill, attending to individuals’ values and promoting institutional and systemic reforms.

From Parents to Peers: Trajectories in Sources of Academic Influence Grades 4 to 8

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy C. Sorensen ◽  
Philip J. Cook ◽  
Kenneth A. Dodge
Keyword(s):  
Peer Influence ◽  
Ability Grouping ◽  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Family Influence ◽  
School Type ◽  
Family Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Grade Levels ◽  
Meaningful Role ◽  
Simultaneous Influence

Prior research and anecdotal evidence from educators suggest that classroom peers play a meaningful role in how students learn. However, the literature has failed to consider the dynamic and context-dependent nature of classroom peer influence. Developmental psychology theories suggest that peer influence will increase and family influence will decrease as children enter adolescence. This study uses rich administrative data from North Carolina in 2006 to 2012, matching students to all peers in each of their courses in third through eighth grades. The analysis identifies trends in the magnitude of classroom peer effects across grade levels, with special attention to controlling for confounding factors such as simultaneous influence, student–classroom sorting, nonlinearity, and school-type effects. Consistent with psychological theories about adolescence, our findings indicate that the effect of average peer quality multiplies by a factor of nearly 3 for reading and 5 for math between fourth grade and seventh grade; contemporaneously, family socioeconomic status effects on academic performance nearly vanish by the end of middle school. We uncover additional evidence that ability grouping, while often harmful in an elementary school setting, becomes increasingly beneficial in later grades—particularly for math subjects.

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