Different people choose undergraduate degrees to study at university for different reasons. To date, there have been limited attempts to identify individual differences in motivation that drive undergraduate degree choice. We identified that people choose university degrees for four reasons: career concerns (Career), intrinsic interest in the subject (Interest), an opportunity to help others (H...

Consumer choices are often driven by multiple goals (e.g., career and family), each of which if viewed in isolation may appear to suggest conflicting choices. This article examines the effect of initial goal pursuit on consumers’ interest in pursuing unrelated or even conflicting goals. Four studies were conducted to test whether perceived goal progress hinders the pursuit of the focal goal. Th...

While the gastroenterology career path is by no means short, for many of us it was relatively straightforward. If, like me, you knew you wanted to pursue gastroenterology, you moved from medical school to residency to fellowship relatively seamlessly, without need for significant pause or reflection. Yet during fellowship, there is a looming fork in the road. Mentors ask about your career goals...

You now are at the point in your training where you are beginning to believe that there is life after medical school and residency. This is an exciting time; you are about to get your first job as an attending emergency physician. The next decisions you make may be critical and could shape and define the remainder of your career. Before making these decisions and selecting a position, you shoul...

INTRODUCTION Care coordination (CC) is an important fulcrum for pursuing a range of health care goals. Current research and policy analyses have focused on aggregated data rather than on understanding what happens within individual cases. At the case level, CC emerges as a complex network of communications among providers over time, crossing and recrossing many organizational boundaries. Micro-...

Current localizationpractices suffer fromanarrowandstaticvisionofculture resulting in usability problems for IT product and design. To address this problem, this article compares user localization efforts of mobile messaging technology in two different cultural contexts with a new methodology of cultural usability. It calls for expanding thescopeof localizationpracticesand linkinguser localizat...

Research question Many elite athletes pursue higher education or professional employment alongside their sport career. Formal mentoring relationships help to balance the demands of a dual Thus, purpose this study is investigate interrelationship between mentoring, values conveyed in and satisfaction with sporting non-sporting career goals from mentee mentor perspective. This research contribute...