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SIOP mentoring and career symposiums

  • 1.  SIOP mentoring and career symposiums

    Posted 08-30-2012 10:30
    Hi career researchers,

    My colleagues and I are looking for additional papers for two SIOP symposiums.

    The first has a theme around career motivation.  The existing papers include:

    1.  Data that assesses how individuals view career success (i.e., do they think success comes from high salary, recognition, being able to balance work and family, etc.) and how that motivates vocational choice.
    2.  Data from a large organization that  focuses on the "unmotivated" employee.     Results suggest that these employees tend to     focus on the relationships they have formed with their coworkers and the compensation and benefits they receive from the job, rather than the work itself or career development.  The organization has launched a larger investigation into this group of employees to fully understand the group and their career needs, including a better characterization of this group, a better understanding of their motivations, and whether this group is actually detrimental to the workplace.

    If you are interested and have a paper that would fit with the career motivators theme, please contact Kristen Shockley directly at kristen.shockley@baruch.cuny.edu.

    The second potential symposium has a theme around mentoring with longitudinal data:

    The existing papers include:
    1. D    ata from a quasi-experiment where employees were either mentored or not and then objective career data (promotions) and voluntary turnover for 1, 2 and 3 years. Results show mentoring has incremental value over human capital variables such as IQ and education. 
    2. Data more around psychological contract in mentoring and we are looking at negative mentoring experiences and the effects of unmet expectations over two time waves. 

    If you are interested and have a paper that would fit with the mentoring theme, please contact Kim O'Brien directly at obrie1ke@cmich.edu.

    Thanks,
    Kristen Shockley