Information Systems (IS) academics who have recently achieved professorial status often confess that their promotion process has been long, sometimes painful, occasionally unfair, and almost invariably political. Also, it is clear that the perceptions about promotion criteria vary across schools, countries and continents. This situation is particularly worrying for ‘mid career’ academics, i.e.,...

Today's doctoral programs continue to prepare students for a traditional academic career path despite the inadequate supply of research-focused faculty positions. We advocate for a broader doctoral curriculum that prepares trainees for a wide range of science-related career paths. In support of this argument, we describe data from our survey of doctoral students in the basic biomedical sciences...

This article addresses what challenges are faced by the mid-career librarian and discusses what challenges these librarians face during their career path. The article also analyzes how mid-career librarians can deal with these challenges through career development and planning using self evaluation and assessment.

GENDER AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN PAY AND PROMOTION FOR NHS NURSES For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of covariate exogeneity inherent in the ...

career aspirations are career paths which provide employees' career lives with maintenance, order and meaning. these aspirations are resources of self- knowledge and stability in career. researches showed that career aspirations can influence the improvement of variables related to human resource management including organizational socialization which plays a vital role in the initial stag...

An interdisciplinarian is a focusedly learned individual who has had both additional expert tutelage and “synergetic knowledge connections,” resulting in the latter from convolvement learning of comparative and contrasting information and methods. Secondly, to be a multidisciplinarian is to be knowledgeable in two or more disciplines without having had the benefits of expert tutelage or “synerg...

This article unravels the relationship between organizational career management and the need for external career counseling. We conducted a path analysis using data of 803 Flemish employees. The results indicate a three-way relationship between organizational career management and external career counseling. First, experiencing organizational career management reduces the need for external care...

Purpose This study aims to build a framework of the influencing factors construction workers' career promotion and identifies critical determinants so as propose suggestions for government enterprises offer workers path promotion. Design/methodology/approach In line with theory human resources, such Herzberg's two-factor theory, this constructs theoretical that affects workers. Using evidence f...

Article history: Received 27 April 2010 Available online 7 May 2010 This research examines the relationship between employees' career growth and organizational commitment. Career growth was conceptualized by four factors: career goal progress, professional ability development, promotion speed and remuneration growth, while organizational commitment was conceptualized using Meyer and Allen's (19...