The present study examines the achievement goals of university instructors, particularly the structure of such goals, and their relationship to biographic characteristics, other aspects of instructors' motivation, and teaching quality. Two hundred and fifty-one university instructors (184 without Ph.D., 97 with Ph.D., thereof 51 full professors; 146 males, 92 females) answered a questionnaire m...

Is there a career that combines the environment, genetics, and engineering?What is a theriogenologist, and what education and skills does one need for this career?What careers can one enter with an associate’s or a bachelor’s degree?What careers have the best outlook in terms of projected newpositions, and what salary ranges can one expect? This article provides an overview of free, online reso...

This article aims to demonstrate how neoliberal individualist discourse is represented in compulsory Career Planning Courses added the curriculum of every department Turkish universities. For this purpose, course contents are subjected critical analysis. As a result analysis, it was observed that generating career goals, self-development, self-investment, designing oneself as an enterprise, bei...

Changes in the labour market require people to show more self-management than before if they want to succeed. The present research was conducted to analyse the nomological network of general self-management strategies (i.e. selection of goals; optimization as implementation of goal-pursuing behaviour), specific self-management strategies (i.e. career planning) and central indicators of career s...

In order to contribute to higher levels of job satisfaction, job involvement and productivity, a match or fit should be established between the dominant career anchor associated with a specific occupation and that of the employee. A career anchor is an individual's set of self-perceived talents, abilities, motives, needs and values that form the nucleus of one's occupational self-concept. Psych...

Issues confronting doctor-parents include the impact of parenting on career choice, special challenges faced by women doctor-parents, leave entitlements, and the unique strengths and challenges of two-doctor families. Experience from one Canadian doctors' health program suggests that unique themes include communication within doctor-families, insight into doctor-parent dynamics, the relationshi...

Motivational crowding-out theory establishes that the effectiveness of financial incentive schemes, like pay-for-performance, crucially depends on the underlying social preferences of health workers. In this paper we study the extent to which heterogeneity in the strength and structure of social preferences is related to career choices by testing whether preferences vary systematically between ...

PURPOSE This study aims at a first evaluation of the outcome of the Swiss national MD-PhD program during the last 16 years. METHOD One hundred and twenty six former and current students in the Swiss national MD-PhD program were surveyed via a Web-based questionnaire in September 2007. Twenty-four questions assessed information regarding participant demographics, information on the PhD thesis ...

As an important factor in predicting the future sustainable development of college students, career decision-making (CDM) has attracted widespread attention field vocational education. Based on Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), this study proposed a moderated mediation model to investigate relationship between work values and CDM, mediating role self-efficacy (CDMSE), moderating effect goa...