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VU Research PortalWhat does your career mean to you?Lysova, E.2016document versionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of recordLink to publication in VU Research Portalcitation for published version (APA)Lysova, E. (2016). What does your career mean to you? Understanding Individual Career and Work Behaviorsthrough the Prism of the Meaning of Career. Amsterdam Business Research Institute.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            • Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            • You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain            • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ?Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediatelyand investigate your claim.E-mail address:vuresearchportal.ub@vu.nlDownload date: 27. May. 2021AMSTERDAM IN SCIENCE,BUSINESS AND SOCIETY ABRI AMSTERDAM BUSINESS RESEARCH INSTITUTEWWW.ABRI.VU.NLWHAT DOES YOUR CAREER MEAN TO YOU? UNDERSTANDING INDIVIDUAL CAREER AND WORK BEHAVIORS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE MEANING OF CAREERWhat does your career mean to you? Just decades ago when hearing this question, individuals would only be prompted to reflect on how they experience their jobs. Today, with the shift of responsibility for careers from organizations to individuals and with careers becoming increasingly important for individuals’ identification in the work context, this question encourages deeper reflection by individuals about what matters to them in their careers. While individuals’ career-related meanings have been comprehensively addressed in studies of individual career success, little is known about their consequences for individuals’ career and work behaviors. To address this issue, this thesis explores how the meanings that individuals ascribe to their careers guide their career and work behaviors through four empirical studies. The findings demonstrate that individuals’ career-related meanings are multidimensional and dependent on the context, and these meanings shed a unique light on individuals’ behaviors in the work context, contributing to the success of individuals and organizations. The results further reveal that those individuals who are self-directed and who are driven by (other-oriented) values in their career development and those who have a calling tend to proactively develop their careers and engage in proactive work behaviors that bring change and innovation in organizations. BIOEvgenia I. Lysova is an Assistant Professor of Careers and Organizational Behavior at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she also worked on her PhD dissertation. She holds a MSc degree in Business Administration from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a 5-year university degree in Economics and Management (Cum Laude) from St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. Evgenia’s main research interests are calling, the meaning of work, self-directed career management, and proactive work behaviors.ISBN: 978 90 3610 460 9WHAT DOES YOUR CAREER MEAN TO YOU?14EVGENIA I. LYSOVAUNDERSTANDING INDIVIDUAL CAREER AND WORK BEHAVIORS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE MEANING OF CAREEREVGENIA I. LYSOVAWHAT DOES YOUR CAREER MEAN TO YOU?

What does your career mean to you?:Understanding Individual Career and Work Behaviors through the Prism of the Meaning of Career

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AMSTERDAM 
IN SCIENCE,
BUSINESS 
AND SOCIETY 
ABRI 
AMSTERDAM BUSINESS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
WWW.ABRI.VU.NL
WHAT DOES YOUR 
CAREER MEAN TO YOU? 
UNDERSTANDING INDIVIDUAL CAREER 
AND WORK BEHAVIORS THROUGH THE 
PRISM OF THE MEANING OF CAREER
What does your career mean to you? Just decades ago when hearing this question, individuals would only be 
prompted to reflect on how they experience their jobs. Today, with the shift of responsibility for careers from 
organizations to individuals and with careers becoming increasingly important for individuals’ identification 
in the work context, this question encourages deeper reflection by individuals about what matters to them 
in their careers. While individuals’ career-related meanings have been comprehensively addressed in 
studies of individual career success, little is known about their consequences for individuals’ career and 
work behaviors. To address this issue, this thesis explores how the meanings that individuals ascribe 
to their careers guide their career and work behaviors through four empirical studies. The findings 
demonstrate that individuals’ career-related meanings are multidimensional and dependent on the 
context, and these meanings shed a unique light on individuals’ behaviors in the work context, 
contributing to the success of individuals and organizations. The results further reveal that 
those individuals who are self-directed and who are driven by (other-oriented) values in their 
career development and those who have a calling tend to proactively develop their careers 
and engage in proactive work behaviors that bring change and innovation in organizations. 
BIO
Evgenia I. Lysova is an Assistant Professor of Careers and Organizational Behavior at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 
where she also worked on her PhD dissertation. She holds a MSc degree in Business Administration from the Vrije 
Universiteit Amsterdam and a 5-year university degree in Economics and Management (Cum Laude) from St. 
Petersburg State University of Film and Television. Evgenia’s main research interests are calling, the meaning of 
work, self-directed career management, and proactive work behaviors.
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