TY - CHAP
T1 - Career success, revised: Discerning idiosyncratic definitions using qualitative methods
AU - Dries, Nicky
AU - Pepermans, Roland
AU - Carlier, Olivier
PY - 2008/5/26
Y1 - 2008/5/26
N2 - A multidimensional model of career success was developed aiming to be more comprehensible and inclusive than existing models. In a first study, 22 managers were asked to tell the story of their careers. At the end of each interview, idiosyncratic career success "value ladders" were constructed for each interviewee through an interactive process with the interviewer. The 42 superordinate career success operationalizations that came forward through this process were then used as input in a Q-sort study in which 30 subject matter experts (SMEs) served as judges. Through multidimensional scaling (MDS), a model incorporating the different idiosyncratic meanings the interviewees attached to the career success construct was obtained. A two-dimensional configuration (affect - achievement vs. intra-personal - inter-personal) comprising 9 regions (performance, advancement, self-development, creativity, security, satisfaction, recognition, cooperation and contribution) was concluded upon as the optimal solution.
AB - A multidimensional model of career success was developed aiming to be more comprehensible and inclusive than existing models. In a first study, 22 managers were asked to tell the story of their careers. At the end of each interview, idiosyncratic career success "value ladders" were constructed for each interviewee through an interactive process with the interviewer. The 42 superordinate career success operationalizations that came forward through this process were then used as input in a Q-sort study in which 30 subject matter experts (SMEs) served as judges. Through multidimensional scaling (MDS), a model incorporating the different idiosyncratic meanings the interviewees attached to the career success construct was obtained. A two-dimensional configuration (affect - achievement vs. intra-personal - inter-personal) comprising 9 regions (performance, advancement, self-development, creativity, security, satisfaction, recognition, cooperation and contribution) was concluded upon as the optimal solution.
KW - career success
KW - laddering interview method
KW - q-sort
KW - multidimensional scaling
M3 - Meeting abstract (Book)
T3 - Presented at the annual meeting of the Belgian Association of Psychology in Leuven, Belgium
BT - Presented at the annual meeting of the Belgian Association of Psychology in Leuven, Belgium
ER -