Career mobility in a global era: advances in managing expatriation and repatriation

The surge of interest in expatriation and repatriation within the broader discourse on labor mobility of professionals and high-skilled labor, human capital development and the theory and practice of people management, serves as the backdrop to this paper. We propose that expatriation and repatriation be framed in the context of global careers and embedded in the wider social-economic environment of globalization through the lens of a career ecosystem theory. We chart the evolution of scholarly publications on career mobility over the past four decades and highlight current trends, in particular the emergence of self-initiated expatriation as a pivotal change in the direction of expatriation studies and derived practice. We assess the rigor of empirical findings, weigh theoretical underpinnings, offer a research agenda for future research and outline managerial implications

Rhetoric But Whose Reality? The Influence of Employability Messages on Employee Mobility Tactics and Work Group Identification

Over the last decade, employability has been presented by its advocates as the solution to employment uncertainty, and by its critics as a management rhetoric possessing little relevance to the experiences of most workers. This article suggests that while employability has failed to develop into a key research area, a deeper probing of its message is warranted. In particular, it is suggested that employability may have resonance with employees as workers rather than as employees of their immediate employing organisation. This demands a slightly different approach to studying employability than some other related phenomena such as employee commitment which has resonance only in relation to the employing organization. In adopting a social identity approach, the significance of the employability message is shown not only to lie in employees’ willingness to disassociate from their existing work groups and pursue individual mobility, but also in its capacity to undermine workers’ collective responses to grievances and unwanted organizational changes. A future research agenda is presented which highlights the need to address recent attempts to develop employability expectations among graduate career entrants, and for a closer critical engagement with management writings that attempt to justify the unnecessary espousal of the self development message

High flyers and succession planning in changing organisations

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Career development in flatter structures

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Career development in flatter structures Report 2 - organisational practices

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Career development The impact of flatter structures on careers

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The Roffey Park management agenda 2000

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Redirection of gaze and switching of attention during rapid stepping reactions evoked by unpredictable postural perturbation

In many situations successful execution of a balance-recovery reaction requires visual information about the environment. In particular, reactions that involve rapid limb movements, such as stepping, must be controlled to avoid obstacles and accommodate other constraints on limb trajectory. However, it is unknown whether the central nervous system can acquire the necessary visuospatial information prior to perturbation onset or must, instead, redirect gaze at the floor during the execution of the stepping reaction. To study this we examined gaze behaviour, during rapid forward-directed stepping reactions triggered by unpredictable platform perturbation, in 12 healthy young adults. We also monitored switching of attention, as inferred from onset of significant error in performing a concurrent visuomotor tracking task. Obstacles and/or step targets were used as constraints, to increase demands for accurate foot movement. Downward gaze shifts towards the floor almost never occurred during stepping reactions when foot motion was unconstrained but did occur more frequently as the demands for accurate foot movement increased. Nonetheless, even in the most challenging condition (target plus obstacle), downward redirection of gaze occurred in less than 40% of the trials, and subjects were commonly well able to clear the obstacle and land the foot on the target without redirecting their gaze towards the floor. An apparent switching of attention, subsequent to perturbation onset, occurred frequently (>80% of trials) in all task conditions, independent of the gaze shifts. The findings indicate that visual fixation of the foot or floor was not essential for accurate control of the foot movement, nor was the apparent switching of attention that followed perturbation onset linked, in any consistent way, to overt changes in visual fixation. Spatial features of the support surface were apparently “remembered” prior to perturbation onset, thereby allowing both vision and attention to be directed to other demands during the execution of the balance reaction.This study was supported by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. B.E.M. was a CIHR Senior Investigator and W.E.M. held a Canada Research Chair in neuro-rehabilitation. J.L.Z. held scholarships from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and from the Health Care, Technology and Place Program (University of Toronto)

Leadership as an enabler of professional agency and creativity : case studies from the Finnish information technology sector

This paper summarizes and elaborates the findings of a research project on leadership as an enabler of professional agency and creativity in information technology organizations. The synthesis in this paper is based on a summary of three primary studies. Each of the studies approached leadership, creativity and/or professional agency with a specific focus. Leaning on a mixed‐methods and ethnographic approach, including various empirical data collection and analytical tools, the project investigated the relationship between professional agency and creativity; issues that frame professional agency and creativity; and the meaning of leadership practices for the enhancement of agency and creativity. The findings highlight a strong connection between professional agency and creativity and their context‐ and situation‐specific manifestations. The findings also address creativity that manifests itself in interaction, processes and collaboration. Further, the findings discuss the role of agile human resource development for professional agency and creativity, and show that flexible leadership practices are necessary in supporting professional agency and creativity.peerReviewe