SELF-CAREER MANAGEMENT: INTERVENTION WITH RESEARCH GRANT HOLDERS

Self-career Management: Intervention with Research Grant Holders

This article reports the findings of the assessment of the effectiveness of a self-career management intervention, named "Self-Career Management Seminar", specifically developed for, and implemented in a group of research grant holders. The program invites participants to foster their self-knowledge, the knowledge about advanced training opportunities, employment creation and attainment, as wel...

Preventing Sickness Absence With Career Management Intervention

This study examined whether a group intervention focusing on building up preparedness for career management can prevent future sickness absence.Register-based data on the number of sickness absence days and sickness absence episodes were examined as outcomes of the intervention among 684 employees in 17 organizations in a randomized controlled trial. Sickness absence data were collected coverin...

International Association for Chinese Management Research Dissertation Grant and Workshop Topic: Indigenous Management Research in China

In general terms, indigenous research is any study about a uniquely local phenomenon that examines its local (emic) implications and/or its global (etic) implications. Whether a study is indigenous or not can be judged by a simple rule that the study involves at least one construct or variable unique to a local phenomenon. Further, the quality of an indigenous study can be assessed by the novel...

Sea Grant RESEARCH NOTES

Co-oxidation is a little understood means of microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons. In co-oxidation, microbes growing on one compound, the growth substrate, are able to oxidize a second · compound, the cosubstrate. This project examines the role of co-oxidation in the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAR's), one of the most recalcitrant petroleum compounds now found in...

Career Self-Efficacy: Exemplary Recent Research and Emerging Directions