This Handbook of Research Methods in Careers serves as a comprehensive guide to the methodologies that researchers use in career scholarship. Presenting detailed overviews of methodologies, contributors offer numerous actionable best practices, realistic previews, and cautionary tales based on their vast collective experience of research in the discipline.
Chapters showcase diverse and interdisciplinary approaches to studying careers across the spectrum of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. Providing an in-depth illustration of established methods and current trends in careers research, this Handbook brings together top international authors to discuss the opportunities and limitations of both design and analysis choices.
Offering cutting-edge methods from established and emerging experts, this Handbook is crucial reading for scholars at all levels who are currently studying, or wish to study, careers. It will also be useful for institutions coordinating large research projects on careers, as well as consultants and organizational psychologists providing research support for employee development.
Handbook of Research Methods in Careers
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Table of Contents
Contents:
Introduction to the Handbook of Research Methods in Careers 1
Wendy Murphy and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas
1 Mapping methods in careers research: a review and future
research agenda 9
Jos Akkermans, Colin I.S.G. Lee, Sanne Nijs, Aimilia Mylona, and
Janneke K. Oostrom
PART I MEASUREMENT AND DESIGN
2 Constructs in careers research: an overview of the multiple
constructs and challenges in the careers domain 34
Yehuda Baruch
3 The 5C Group: developing and sustaining a cross-cultural team 55
Jon P. Briscoe, Michael Dickmann, Douglas T. Hall, Emma Parry,
and Wolfgang Mayrhofer
4 Managing a mega-project to explore and enhance careers:
insights from Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3 73
Alison Pearce, Brian Harney, Mark Bailey, Katarzyna
Dziewanowska, Janine Bosak, Peter Pease, Brenda Stalker, Dimitra
Skoumpopoulou, Paul Doyle, Samuel Clegg, Alireza Shokri, Suzanne
Crane, Susan O’Donnell, Rose Quan, Ilsang Ko, Katarina K.
Mihelič, Robert Kaše, Matej Černe, Julie Brückner, John McMackin,
Szu-Hsin Wu, Jose Aldo Valencia Hernandez, and Huan Sun
5 Career decision making 103
Gregory Hennessy and Jeffrey Yip
6 Designing and studying mentoring programs: review and discussion 120
Rajashi Ghosh and Ague Manongsong
PART II QUANTITATIVE METHODS
7 Text mining in career studies: generating insights from
unstructured textual data 139 Open Access Chapter
Vladimer B. Kobayashi, Stefan T. Mol, Jarno Vrolijk and
Gábor Kismihók
8 Only time will tell: conducting longitudinal research on careers 164
Shoshana R. Dobrow and Hannah Weisman
9 The role of social networks in contemporary careers 191
Jessica R. Methot and Scott E. Seibert
10 Multilevel modeling for careers research 210
Bert Schreurs, Joeri Hofmans and Bart Wille
PART III QUALITATIVE AND MIXED METHODS
11 Engaging grounded theory research to study careers: attending
to the relational tensions 236
Kerry Roberts Gibson and Danna Greenberg
12 Using in-depth interviews in careers research 255
Suzanne C. de Janasz and A. Julie Katz
13 Careers, identities and institutions: the promise of narrative
analysis 267
Holly Slay Ferraro
14 Qualitative and quantitative examination of metaphorical
language use in career-life preparedness 283
Allison Creed and Susan Nacey
15 Mixed methods in careers research: contradictory paradigms
or desired approach? 299
Jelena Zikic and Viktoriya Voloshyna
Index
Author Description
Edited by Wendy Murphy, Associate Dean of Academic Programs and Professor of Organizational Behavior and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Management Division, Babson College, US