Careers: Mobility, Embeddedness, and Success

This article proposes refinements of the constructs of career mobility and career embeddedness and reviews the array of factors that have been found to energize (discourage) employees to change jobs, organizations, and/or occupations. The article also reviews the literature on career success and ide...

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Published inJournal of management Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 350 - 377
Main Authors Feldman, Daniel C., Ng, Thomas W. H.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA Sage Publications 01.06.2007
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Careers
Embeddedness
Job satisfaction
Literature reviews
Mobility
Occupational mobility - Research
Occupations
Success
career management
careers
mobility
career change
job change
embeddedness
boundaryless careers
career development
career success
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Summary:This article proposes refinements of the constructs of career mobility and career embeddedness and reviews the array of factors that have been found to energize (discourage) employees to change jobs, organizations, and/or occupations. The article also reviews the literature on career success and identifies which types of mobility (and embeddedness) are most likely to lead to objective career success (e.g., promotions) and subjective career success (e.g., career satisfaction). In the final section, the article revisits the utility of viewing careers as “boundaryless” and suggests alternative frameworks for future research on these topics.
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ISSN:0149-2063
1557-1211
DOI:10.1177/0149206307300815