UNDERSTANDING LATER CAREERS: A COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT

Understanding Babinski's anosognosia: 100 years later.

New careers , more complex careers ?

The article deals with the question whether careers have indeed become more complex during the last years and/or decades by applying methods stemming from chaos research. The movements of 215 business school graduates from two different cohorts (graduation around 1970 and 1990 respectively) along two career-related dimensions (coupling, i.e. careerrelated security, dependency, and number of job...

Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions 30 Years Later: A Comparative Analysis

Hofstede’s (1984, 2001) work on work-related cultural dimensions has been regarded as a paradigm in the field of cross cultural studies. Specifically, his country classification on five work-related cultural values, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity-femininity, individualism-collectivism, and Confucian work dynamics, have been frequently cited by researchers in the past few dec...

Tempus fugit: competency assessment in Modernizing Medical Careers.

I share Richard Smith’s outrage at publishing house ReedElsevier’s participation in the arms trade (JRSM 2007;100:114–115). For this reason I joined some 140 other academics in writing an open letter to Reed which appeared in the Times Higher Education Supplement on 1 March 2007. In the letter we call on Reed to cease all involvement in arms fairs. In particular we state that Reed’s involvement...

Understanding why underrepresented students pursue ecology careers: a preliminary case study

M Me el li is ss sa a J J A Ar rm ms st tr ro on ng g, , A Al la an n R R B Be er rk ko ow wi it tz z, , L Le ee e A A D Dy ye er r, , a an nd d J Ja as so on n T Ta ay yl lo or r Please note: This article was downloaded from Frontiers e-View, a service that publishes fully edited and formatted manuscripts before they appear in print in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Readers are stro...