Toward a Theory of Career Motivation

1 October 1983

journal article
Published by Academy of Management in Academy of Management Review

Vol. 8 (4) , 620-630
https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1983.4284664

Abstract

Career motivation is viewed as a multidimensional construct. Components consist of individual characteristics (career identity, career insight, and career resilience domains) and corresponding career decisions and behaviors. Relationships among these components and relevant situational conditions are proposed in a model based on prospective and retrospective rationality.

Keywords

This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:

Toward a Dynamic Model of Job-Person Relationships: Findings, Research Questions, and Implications for Work System Design
Academy of Management Review, 1983
The assessment center and the study of lives.
American Psychologist, 1982
A self-presentational view of social phenomena.
Psychological Bulletin, 1982
The Commitment and Job Tenure of New Employees: Some Evidence of Postdecisional Justification
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1981
The Escalation of Commitment To a Course of Action
Academy of Management Review, 1981
A Partial Test of the Social Information Processing Model of Job Attitudes
Human Relations, 1980
A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1978
Toward a cognitive social learning reconceptualization of personality.
Psychological Review, 1973