Abstract:

Career movements across employers, occupations and industries are commonplace today, with important consequences for individuals and organizations. Research suggests that the growing globalization of business is contributing to this increased mobility. However, despite the growing globalization of businesses and careers, there is a dearth of empirical cross-cultural research on career mobility. This has limited our appreciation of how national cultures affect career mobility. To address this issue, the study uses the GLOBE measures of national cultures to examine the effect of performance orientation, humane orientation, institutional collectivism, individual collectivism and uncertainty avoidance on two facets of individual career mobility: occupational and industry mobility. Employing a sample of 16,292 individuals from 16 European countries over their entire careers, our results show that national cultural values exert a considerable influence on individual career mobility.

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Primary Track: Human Resource Management

Keywords: Organizational behaviour and psychological state;International HRM

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Dr. Michael Koch