[Management] Gokce Basbug - Job Search and Employment Success: A Quantitative Review and Future Research Agenda
- SKKGSB
- Hit2669
- 2020-05-11
Area | Management | |
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Faculty | Basbug, Gokce | |
Journal | Journal of Applied Psychology | |
Title | Job Search and Employment Success: A Quantitative Review and Future Research Agenda |
Professor Gokce Basbug's paper, "Job Search and Employment Success: A Quantitative Review and Future Research Agenda," has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Psychology.
Abstract
Job search is an important activity that people engage in during various phases across the life span (e.g., school-to-work transition, job loss, job change; career transition). Based on our definition of job search as a goal-directed, motivational, and self-regulatory process, we present a framework to organize the multitude of variables examined in the literature on job seeking and employment success. We conducted a quantitative synthesis of the literature to test relationships between job-search self-regulation, job-search behavior, and employment success outcomes.
We also quantitatively review key antecedents (i.e., personality, attitudinal factors, and contextual variables) of job-search self-regulation, job-search behavior, and employment success. We included studies that examined relationships with job-search or employment success variables among job seekers (e.g., new labor market entrants, unemployed individuals, employed individuals), resulting in 400 independent samples (N = 184,897). Most samples (75.5%, k = 302) came from articles published in 2001 or later.
Findings from our meta-analyses support the role of job-search intensity in predicting quantitative employment success outcomes (i.e., rc = .23 for number of interviews, rc = .14 for number of job offers, and rc = .19 for employment status). Overall job-search intensity failed to predict employment quality. Our findings identify job-search self-regulation and job-search quality as promising constructs for future research, as these predicted both quantitative employment success outcomes and employment quality. Based on the results of the theoretical and quantitative synthesis we map out an agenda for future research.
Keyword: Job Research, Management, Quantitative
Link: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341180395_Job_Search_and_Employment_Success_A_Quantitative_Review_and_Future_Research_Agenda