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The gap between career management expectations and reality - empirical insights from the IT industry
journal contribution
posted on 2018-02-05, 14:41 authored by Martin Gubler, Crispin CoombsCrispin Coombs, John ArnoldJohn ArnoldThe Information Technology (IT) industry has become an important economic factor in many Western countries, but it is well known for suffering from skills shortages and high turnover rates. Organizational career management (OCM) may help to attract new talent and reduce IT turnover by satisfying individuals’ career needs. However, to date, little is known about what, exactly, IT professionals expect in terms of career-related support, and whether their expectations match with what IT organizations provide. This paper reports on a quantitative study that investigated what 1686 IT professionals in
Switzerland, Germany and the UK expected and what their employers provided in terms of OCM. Findings indicate that there are substantial mismatches between OCM ‘supply’ and ‘demand’. The paper makes an important contribution by providing a more in-depth understanding of IT professionals’ OCM preferences, leading to various practical implications for IT organizations and beyond.
History
School
- Business and Economics
Department
- Business
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Gruppe Interaktion OrganisationCitation
GUBLER, M., COOMBS. C. and ARNOLD, J., 2018. The gap between career management expectations and reality - empirical insights from the IT industry. Gruppe Interaktion Organisation Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Organisationspsychologie, 49 (1), pp.12-22.Publisher
© SpringerVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2017-12-01Publication date
2018-01-23Notes
This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Organisationspsychologie (GIO). The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11612-018-0402-1.ISSN
2366-6145Publisher version
Language
- en