Career Development International: Volume 7 Issue 1

Career goals and career management strategy among information technology professionals

Patrick Chang Boon Lee

Examines the career goals and career management strategy among information technology (IT) professionals. With regard to career goals, found that IT professionals seek to advance…

Career management and the changing psychological contract

Carol Atkinson

This study was carried out in a major UK retail bank over a seven‐year period. The initial survey in 1993 revealed the lack of a strategic approach to career management and a…

Predicting expatriate job satisfaction: the role of firm internationalization

Meredith Downes, Anisya S. Thomas, Rodger B. Singley

This study is based on the premise that, as organizations gain experience in the international marketplace, the determinants of job satisfaction for expatriate managers will vary…

A road‐map for creating efficient corporate internal labor markets

Rado Kotorov, Emily Hsu

In today’s hyper‐competitive markets, the most valuable asset and the primary source of competitive advantage is human capital. It is also the resource which is most difficult to…

Team leaders’ development: findings from a case study

Nikos Bozionelos, Stuart Lusher

Reports on the experience of production team leaders and their line managers on the quality of training and development of the former. The setting was the UK plant of a US‐based…

Strategies for survival in the war of talent

Michael Hay

One‐third of employees plan to resign from their jobs within the next two years, according to a new international report, The Retention Dilemma, by Hay Group. However, with…