Career Success Schemas and their Contextual Embeddedness: A Comparative Configurational Perspective

We introduce career success schemas as critical for understanding how people in different contexts perceive and understand career success. Using a comparative configurational approach, we show, in a study of 13 countries, that two structural characteristics of career success schemas\u2014complexity and convergence\u2014differ across country contexts and are embedded in specific configurations of institutional factors. Adopting complexity and convergence as primary dimensions, we propose a taxonomy of career success schemas at the country level. Based on this taxonomy, we contribute to the understanding of subjective career success across countries, discuss the importance of schemas for organisational career systems in multinational enterprises, and propose specific guidelines for future comparative careers research

Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies’ career-related human potential and proactive career behavior

Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisational‐level variables, we provide insights into how career goals and behaviours are understood and embedded in the more distal societal context. More specifically, we operationalise societal context using the career‐related human potential composite and aim to understand if and why career goals and behaviours vary between countries. Drawing on a model of career structuration and using multilevel mediation modelling, we draw on a survey of 17,986 employees from 27 countries, covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters, and national statistical data to examine the relationship between societal context (macrostructure building the career‐opportunity structure) and actors' career goals (career mesostructure) and career behaviour (actions). We show that societal context in terms of societies' career‐related human potential composite is negatively associated with the importance given to financial achievements as a specific career mesostructure in a society that is positively related to individuals' proactive career behaviour. Our career mesostructure fully mediates the relationship between societal context and individuals' proactive career behaviour. In this way, we expand career theory's scope beyond occupation‐ and organisation‐related factors

Fast Quantification of Honey Adulteration with Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Chemometric Methods

Honey adulteration is a major issue in food production, which may reduce the effective components in honey and have a detrimental effect on human health. Herein, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) combined with chemometric methods was used to fast quantify the adulterant content. Two common types of adulteration, including mixing acacia honey with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and rape honey, were quantified with univariate analysis and partial least squares regression (PLSR). In addition, the variable importance was tested with univariable analysis and feature selection methods (genetic algorithm (GA), variable importance in projection (VIP), selectivity ratio (SR)). The results indicated that emissions from Mg II 279.58, 280.30 nm, Mg I 285.25 nm, Ca II 393.37, 396.89 nm, Ca I 422.70 nm, Na I 589.03, 589.64 nm, and K I 766.57, 769.97 nm had compact relationship with adulterant content. Best models for detecting the adulteration ratio of HFCS 55, HFCS 90, and rape honey were achieved by SR-PLSR, VIP-PLSR, and VIP-PLSR, with root-mean-square error (RMSE) of 8.9%, 8.2%, and 4.8%, respectively. This study provided a fast and simple approach for detecting honey adulteration

Engineering Properties of PVA Fibre-Reinforced Geopolymer Mortar Containing Waste Oyster Shells

Recycling crushed waste oyster shells (WOS) as a fine aggregate is an attractive method of disposal. However, its use in geopolymer mortar has not been reported. The influence of PVA fibres on the engineering properties of the new geopolymer mortar is still unclear. To bridge the gap, this study investigated the influence of various PVA fibre contents (0–1.05 vol%) on the flowability, compressive, flexural strengths, drying shrinkage, sorptivity, chloride resistance, porosity, fibre dispersion, embodied CO2 emissions (ECO2e), and embodied energy (EE) of the geopolymer mortar. The results indicated that the inclusion of 0.15–1.05 vol% of PVA fibres improved the flexural strength by 10.10–42.31% and reduced the drying shrinkage by 13.37–65.79%. The flowability and compressive strength decreased by 10.78–34.28% and 7.50–27.65%, respectively, but they were sufficient for construction. The sorptivity increased by 1.45–15.16%, and the chloride resistance decreased by 15.09–56.35%, but the geopolymer mortar was still classified as low chloride penetrability. In summary, the optimal content of PVA fibres is 0.45 vol%, and the geopolymer mortar has good engineering properties and eco-efficiency. The cost analysis and high-temperature resistance of the geopolymer mortar are neglected in this study, which should be evaluated in future work

Career success schemas and their contextual embeddedness: a comparative configurational perspective.

We introduce career success schemas as critical for understanding how people in different contexts perceive and understand career success. Using a comparative configurational approach, we show, in a study of 13 countries, that two structural haracteristics of career success schemas - complexity and convergence - differ across country contexts and are embedded in specific configurations of institutional factors. Adopting complexity and convergence as primary dimensions, we propose a taxonomy of career success schemas at the country level. Based on this taxonomy, we contribute to the understanding of subjective career success across countries, discuss the importance of schemas for organisational career systems in multinational enterprises, and propose specific guidelines for future comparative careers research

Here, there, & everywhere: Development and validation of a cross-culturally representative measure of subjective career success

46sìreservedSubjective career success continues to be a critical topic in careers scholarship due to ever changing organizational and societal contexts that make reliance upon external definitions of success untenable or undesirable. While various measures of subjective career success have been developed, there is no measure that is representative of multiple nations. In this study, we develop and validate a new subjective career success scale, which is unique from currently available measures in that it was developed and validated across a broad representation of national cultures. We validated the scale across four phases and several studies cumulatively involving 18,471 individual respondents from 30 countries based upon the GLOBE and Schwartz cultural clusters. This scale allows for addressing career success differences both within and across cultures. It is also easily applicable in everyday practice for companies operating in multicountry contexts. We explore theoretical and practical implications.mixedBriscoe, Jon P.; Kaše, Robert; Dries, Nicky; Dysvik, Anders; Unite, Julie A.; Adeleye, Ifedapo; Andresen, Maike; Apospori, Eleni; Babalola, Olusegun; Bagdadli, Silvia; Çakmak-Otluoglu, K. Övgü; Casado, Tania; Cerdin, Jean-Luc; Cha, Jong-Seok; Chudzikowski, Katharina; Dello Russo, Silvia; Eggenhofer-Rehart, Petra; Fei, Zhangfeng; Gianecchini, Martina; Gubler, Martin; Hall, Douglas T.; Imose, Ruth; Ismail, Ida Rosnita; Khapova, Svetlana; Kim, Najung; Lehmann, Philip; Lysova, Evgenia; Madero, Sergio; Mandel, Debbie; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Milikic, Biljana Bogicevic; Mishra, Sushanta; Naito, Chikae; Nikodijević, Ana D.; Reichel, Astrid; Saher, Noreen; Saxena, Richa; Schleicher, Nanni; Schramm, Florian; Shen, Yan; Smale, Adam; Supangco, Vivien; Suzanne, Pamela; Taniguchi, Mami; Verbruggen, Marijke; Zikic, JelenaBriscoe, Jon P.; Kaše, Robert; Dries, Nicky; Dysvik, Anders; Unite, Julie A.; Adeleye, Ifedapo; Andresen, Maike; Apospori, Eleni; Babalola, Olusegun; Bagdadli, Silvia; Çakmak-Otluoglu, K. Övgü; Casado, Tania; Cerdin, Jean-Luc; Cha, Jong-Seok; Chudzikowski, Katharina; Dello Russo, Silvia; Eggenhofer-Rehart, Petra; Fei, Zhangfeng; Gianecchini, Martina; Gubler, Martin; Hall, Douglas T.; Imose, Ruth; Ismail, Ida Rosnita; Khapova, Svetlana; Kim, Najung; Lehmann, Philip; Lysova, Evgenia; Madero, Sergio; Mandel, Debbie; Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Milikic, Biljana Bogicevic; Mishra, Sushanta; Naito, Chikae; Nikodijević, Ana D.; Reichel, Astrid; Saher, Noreen; Saxena, Richa; Schleicher, Nanni; Schramm, Florian; Shen, Yan; Smale, Adam; Supangco, Vivien; Suzanne, Pamela; Taniguchi, Mami; Verbruggen, Marijke; Zikic, Jelen

Here, there, & everywhere: Development and validation of a cross-culturally representative measure of subjective career success

Subjective career success continues to be a critical topic in careers scholarship due to ever changing organizational and societal contexts that make reliance upon external definitions of success untenable or undesirable. While various measures of subjective career success have been developed, there is no measure that is representative of multiple nations. In this study, we develop and validate a new subjective career success scale, which is unique from currently available measures in that it was developed and validated across a broad representation of national cultures. We validated the scale across four phases and several studies cumulatively involving 18,471 individual respondents from 30 countries based upon the GLOBE and Schwartz cultural clusters. This scale allows for addressing career success differences both within and across cultures. It is also easily applicable in everyday practice for companies operating in multicountry contexts. We explore theoretical and practical implications

Careers in context: an international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career-related human potential and proactive career behaviour

Careers exist in a societal context that offers both constraints and opportunities for career actors. Whereas most studies focus on proximal individual and/or organisationallevel variables, we provide insights into how career goals and behaviours are understood and embedded in the more distal societal context. More specifically, we operationalise societal context using the career-related human potential composite and aim to understand if and why career goals and behaviours vary between countries. Drawing on a model of career structuration and using multilevel mediation modelling, we draw on a survey of 17,986 employees from 27 countries, covering nine of GLOBE's 10 cultural clusters, and national statistical data to examine the relationship between societal context (macrostructure building the career-opportunity structure) and actors' career goals (career mesostructure) and career behaviour (actions). We show that societal context in terms of societies' careerrelated human potential composite is negatively associated with the importance given to financial achievements as a specific career mesostructure in a society that is positively related to individuals' proactive career behaviour. Our career mesostructure fully mediates the relationship between societal context and individuals' proactive career behaviour. In this way, we expand career theory's scope beyond occupation- and organisation-related factors