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...: (a) self-knowledge, (b) occupational information, (c) goal selection, (d) planning, and... Center in the Job Search Program known as JOBS (for a detailed description of these group trainin...Lent (Eds.), Handbook of counseling psychology (3rd ed., pp. 270-308). New York, NY: Wiley. . Ban...
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... embedded in the cognitive theories of psychology and has been used in organizational theories since...), and the degree to which people like their jobs (Spector, 1997). . Intrinsic satisfaction: How peo...Journal of Occupational Behavior, 2, 89-98. . Reed, P. (1987). Spiritualit...
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... so-called dirty, dangerous, and difficult jobs (Komai, 2001; Douglas & Roberts, 2000), at a certa... in business management and industrial psychology for a theoretical framework of research. In line w...Journal of Occupational Behaviour, 4, 317-24. . Cumin, P. (1967). TAT corr...
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...Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 72(4), 463-483. . E...
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... planning through matching individuals with jobs, to meaning making and the self-construction of a ... patterns) and external measures of occupational success, career practitioners should focus on inte...
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The purpose of this study is to discover if occupational preferences have any bearing on whether, or not, individuals decide to pursue entrepreneurial careers. Specifically, this paper seeks to determine if cognitive occupational expectancies (concerning perceived intrinsic and extrinsic occupational rewards) significantly influence plans to undertake entrepreneurship as a primary vocation. Past theory has determined relevant entrepreneurial rewards to be the intrinsic reward of independence, the intrinsic reward of a satisfying way of life, and the extrinsic reward of profit. Preference for each of these rewards is examined by utilizing the Valence Model of the Expectancy Theory. Findings indicate that individuals who perceive entrepreneurship as advantageous based on their attraction ...
... of a sample of female business and psychology students. Subjects were surveyed through the use o... from routine, boring, and unchallenging jobs (Reynolds, P, 1988; Longenecker, Moore, & Petty, 2...
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This qualitative study, based on a series of 30 in-depth interviews and 109 economic surveys conducted with active heroin users residing in and around Detroit, Michigan, describes reported patterns of heroin use and income generation activities. In spite of lack of access to regular, legal employment, we found that many participants displayed a dedication to regular daily routine and a sense of risk management or control. These findings are discussed relative to past research on heroin addiction as well as recent research on the changing nature of employment. We argue that this sample fits somewhere in between the controlled or working addict, and the "junkie" or "righteous dope fiend" of urban lore. We draw a connection between these stable patterns of addiction and income generation a...
... addicted individual (neurobiology or psychology) to the societal contexts in which behaviors are e... low-paying, interchangeable and expendable jobs, with no fringe benefits, and sometimes associated... sickness, which hinders effective occupational functioning." Among women in this sample, there we...
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..., counselors might frame good-fitting occupational choices as highly desirable, but for many individu...
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... time and money training employees for their jobs. In fact, the data suggest that it takes somewhere...Personnel Psychology, 52, 841-868. . Barney, J. & Wright, P. (1998). On...Occupational Specific Skills = represents the types of skills n...
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..., such as Sam Walton, Michael Dell, and Steve Jobs, continue to be respected and revered for their le...However, research in cultural psychology questions this assumption. According to cultural p... these widely shared beliefs about occupational characteristics may not be an exact match with rea...