TY - JOUR
T1 - Insights from vocational and career developmental theories
T2 - Their potential contributions for advancing the understanding of employee turnover
AU - Hom, Peter
AU - Frederick, T. L Leong
AU - Golubovich, Juliya
PY - 2010/12/1
Y1 - 2010/12/1
N2 - This chapter applies three of the most prominent theories in vocational and career psychology to further illuminate the turnover process. Prevailing theories about attrition have rarely integrated explanatory constructs from vocational research, though career (and job) choices clearly have implications for employee affect and loyalty to a chosen job in a career field. Despite remarkable inroads by new perspectives for explaining turnover, career, and vocational formulations can nonetheless enrich these - and conventional - formulations about why incumbents stay or leave their jobs. To illustrate, vocational theories can help clarify why certain shocks (critical events precipitating thoughts of leaving) drive attrition and what embeds incumbents. In particular, this chapter reviews Super's life-span career theory, Holland's career model, and social cognitive career theory and describes how they can fill in theoretical gaps in the understanding of organizational withdrawal.
AB - This chapter applies three of the most prominent theories in vocational and career psychology to further illuminate the turnover process. Prevailing theories about attrition have rarely integrated explanatory constructs from vocational research, though career (and job) choices clearly have implications for employee affect and loyalty to a chosen job in a career field. Despite remarkable inroads by new perspectives for explaining turnover, career, and vocational formulations can nonetheless enrich these - and conventional - formulations about why incumbents stay or leave their jobs. To illustrate, vocational theories can help clarify why certain shocks (critical events precipitating thoughts of leaving) drive attrition and what embeds incumbents. In particular, this chapter reviews Super's life-span career theory, Holland's career model, and social cognitive career theory and describes how they can fill in theoretical gaps in the understanding of organizational withdrawal.
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U2 - 10.1108/S0742-7301(2010)0000029006
DO - 10.1108/S0742-7301(2010)0000029006
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79958048359
SN - 0742-7301
VL - 29
SP - 115
EP - 165
JO - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
JF - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
ER -