scholarly journals The Dynamics of Subjective Career Success: A Qualitative Inquiry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7638
Author(s):  
Leon Hupkens ◽  
Jos Akkermans ◽  
Omar Solinger ◽  
Svetlana Khapova
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Service To Others ◽  
Over Time

Current perspectives on career success have yet to show whether and how subjective career success evaluations may change over time and across career phases. By adopting a retrospective life-span approach to careers, our qualitative inquiry into the career experiences of 63 professionals contributes to the temporal understanding of subjective career success by exploring patterns in how subjective career success perceptions and priorities may change over time. The temporal development of subjective career success was explored among early-career, mid-career, and late-career workers by piecing together retrospective evaluations of career success perceptions. Our findings point to common patterns in career success perceptions across the lifespan. Specifically, we found five shift components of career success perceptions during people’s careers: (1) quitting striving for financial success and recognition; (2) an increased focus on personal development across the career; (3) a stronger emphasis on work–life balance across the career; (4) a shift toward being of service to others; and (5) no change in subjective career success components across the career. These patterns reflect ways in which workers engage in motivational self-regulation and the corresponding career goal-setting across the lifespan. The theoretical implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Neglecting Decline: Remembered and Predicted Personal Development Diverge from Actual Longitudinal Change.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Molouki ◽  
Daniel Bartels ◽  
Oleg Urminsky
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Absolute Magnitude ◽  
Longitudinal Change ◽  
Personal Change ◽  
Future Change ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Time Period ◽  
One Year ◽  
Over Time

A one-year longitudinal study was conducted to investigate the accuracy of people’s assessmentsof their own personal change over time. We compared people’s predicted, actual, and recalledchange in their personality, values, and preferences over this time period. On average,participants underestimated the absolute magnitude of their personal change, yet simultaneouslyoverestimated their net improvement, in both prediction and recall. This effect was due to anasymmetry whereby people selectively neglected negative changes, especially prospectively.Although participants in our sample both improved and declined over the year, they were morelikely to remember past improvements than declines, and made nearly uniformly positivepredictions of future change. We discuss how the current findings reconcile researchdemonstrating expectations of personal improvement (e.g., Wilson & Ross, 2001; Kanten &Teigen, 2008) with other research that suggests people overpredict their personal stability(Quoidbach, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2013).

Group-Based Emotions Over Time: Dynamics of Experience and Regulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 014616722096055
Author(s):  
Eliot R. Smith ◽  
Diane M. Mackie
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Temporal Context ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Time Dynamics ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Regulation Of Emotion ◽  
Over Time

People’s emotions toward their ingroups and salient outgroups often change over time as a result of changing circumstances or intentional self-regulation. To investigate such dynamics, two studies assessed participants’ perceived past, present, and ideal levels of group-based emotions toward ingroups and outgroups, for several different types of groups. Consistent with predictions, participants ideally wanted to feel more positive and less negative emotions toward the ingroup compared to their present levels. However, contrary to predictions, ideal emotions toward competitive outgroups were more positive than negative. Several effects over time suggested the successful regulation of emotion: Ideal levels of positive ingroup emotion predicted group-related behavioral intentions as well as emotions reported at a later time, over and above present levels. This work puts group-based emotions in a subjective temporal context and opens new directions for theory-driven investigation and new possibilities for interventions.

scholarly journals Constructions of success in academia: an early career perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Conflicting Messages

© 2015 Society for Research into Higher Education. Expectations around success in academia vary, and early career academics often receive conflicting messages about what they should concentrate on to achieve promotion or tenure. Taking a social constructionist approach, this paper considers the constructs of objective and subjective career success in academia and shares the perspectives of early career academics in three countries in relation to these narratives. Key findings are that objective career success in academia dominates the literature but remains ill-defined in the minds of the early career academics to whom the measures are applied, and that subjective career success in academia needs both more research attention and more consideration in promotion, tenure, and workload deliberations and policies.

Linking Job Design to Subjective Career Success

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason J. Dahling ◽  
Taylor K. Lauricella
Keyword(s):  
Career Success ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Job Design ◽  
Need Satisfaction ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Career Experiences ◽  
Practical Standpoint ◽  
Subjective Career Success

We tested a predictive model based on self-determination theory (SDT) to demonstrate how job design choices contribute to subjective career success. Data collected at Time 1 demonstrated that the job characteristics of autonomy support and competence support had direct and interactive effects on employees’ need satisfaction. Need satisfaction at Time 1 mediated the relationship between autonomy support and self-determined work motivation at Time 2. Work motivation, in turn, mediated the relationships between need fulfillment and career attitudes that characterize subjective career success. These findings are theoretically important because they demonstrate that SDT can bridge job design theory and career theory, pointing to new ways that job and career experiences are interrelated. From a practical standpoint, the results are valuable because they show that job enrichment efforts guided by SDT have important implications for promoting career success perceptions and vocational retention among experienced workers.

Geology and Mining: Mineral Resources and Reserves: Their Estimation, Use, and Abuse

SEG Discovery ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon M. Jowitt ◽  
Brian A. McNulty
Keyword(s):  
Capital Investment ◽  
Mineral Exploration ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Critical Metals ◽  
Reserve Estimation ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
Regulatory Constraints ◽  
Reserve Estimates ◽  
Over Time

Editor’s note: The Geology and Mining series, edited by Dan Wood and Jeffrey Hedenquist, is designed to introduce early-career professionals and students to a variety of topics in mineral exploration, development, and mining, in order to provide insight into the many ways in which geoscientists contribute to the mineral industry. Abstract Resource and reserve estimation is a critical step in mine development and the progression from mineral exploration to commodity production. The data inputs typically change over time and reflect variations in geoscientific knowledge as well as the modifying factors required by regulation for estimating a reserve. These factors include mineral (ore) processing, metallurgical treatment of the ore, infrastructure requirements for mine and workforce, and the transportation of processed products to buyers; others that will affect the production of metals and/or minerals from a deposit include economic, marketing, legal, environmental, social, and governmental factors. All are needed by the mining industry to quantify the contained mineralization within mineral deposits that likely warrant the significant capital investment required to build a mine. However, these resource and reserve data are estimates that change over time due to unpredicted variations in the initial inputs. Paramount to the two estimates are the quality and accuracy of the geologic inputs and the communication of these to the professionals tasked with making each estimate. Geostatistical processing of the grade of the resource has become a dominant element of the estimation process, but this requires transparent and informed communication between geologists and mining engineers with the geostatistician responsible for mathematically processing the grade data. Regulatory constraints also mean that estimated resources and reserves seldom capture the full extent of a mineral deposit. Similarly, co- and by-product metals and minerals that are commonly produced by mines may not be captured by resource and reserve estimates because of their limited economic contribution. This suggests that reporting standards for co- and by-products—particularly for the critical metals that may have a sharp increase in demand—need improvement. Finally, the importance of these data to the mining industry is such that informing investors and the broader public about the nature of resource and reserve estimates, and the meaning of associated terminology, is also essential when considering the global metal and mineral supply, and the role of mining in modern society.

scholarly journals Constructions of success in academia: an early career perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Sutherland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Social Constructionist ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Constructionist Approach ◽  
Subjective Career Success ◽  
Conflicting Messages

© 2015 Society for Research into Higher Education. Expectations around success in academia vary, and early career academics often receive conflicting messages about what they should concentrate on to achieve promotion or tenure. Taking a social constructionist approach, this paper considers the constructs of objective and subjective career success in academia and shares the perspectives of early career academics in three countries in relation to these narratives. Key findings are that objective career success in academia dominates the literature but remains ill-defined in the minds of the early career academics to whom the measures are applied, and that subjective career success in academia needs both more research attention and more consideration in promotion, tenure, and workload deliberations and policies.

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