Toward a sustainable career perspective on contingent work: a critical review and a research agenda

Retkowsky, Jana; Nijs, Sanne; Akkermans, Jos; Jansen, Paul; Khapova, Svetlana N.

doi:10.1108/cdi-06-2022-0181

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“…Precarious workers and individuals from historically marginalized or underserved groups also deserve to have sustainable careers, even if they have less access to the resources needed to support longevity and less power and/or freedom to make bold career moves to protect their long-term health, happiness, and productivity [41,42,92,93]. Despite this reality, precarious, low-income, and underserved employees must still make career decisions [94], and sensegiving about sustainability might empower them to select the more sustainable alternative available to them whenever possible. Alternatively, sharing information about sustainability, and particularly its function as a possible career theme, might help individuals from less privileged backgrounds to have more confidence in their past career decisions, as discussed above.…”

Section: Implications For Practicementioning

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Career Sustainability: Framing the Past to Adapt in the Present for a Sustainable Future

Schweitzer,

Lyons,

Smith

2023

Sustainability

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The emerging literature concerning sustainable careers posits that career development is an adaptive and dynamic process of creating person–career fit, in pursuit of a career that is happy, healthy, and productive. Our goal is to advance this literature by delving deeper into the intrapersonal processes involved in constructing career sustainability—which involves meeting one’s needs in the present without sacrificing one’s needs in the future—and clarifying the role of time in this process. We articulate a fundamentally subjective, intrapersonal process of enacting career sustainability that draws upon career construction theory, prospective and adaptive sensemaking, conservation of resources theory, and career adaptability to articulate how individuals reflect, frame, envision, re-frame, and ultimately, adapt to effect and maintain their career sustainability over time. This expansion brings added conceptual depth to earlier sustainable careers models by situating the career firmly within the agency of the career actor and articulating how this process unfolds with specific recognition of the past, present, and future. Educators, career counselors, HR representatives, and community organizations are called upon to promote and support career sustainability and support individuals through this dynamic and adaptive process.

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Section: Implications For Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Career Sustainability: Framing the Past to Adapt in the Present for a Sustainable Future

Schweitzer,

Lyons,

Smith

2023

Sustainability

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“…This review is based on the article, “Toward a sustainable career perspective on contingent work: a critical review and a research agenda,” by Retkowsky et al (2023), published in Career Development International .…”

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2023

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Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings The authors reviewed the academic literature across a range of disciplines on contingent workers and identified common themes utilizing the concept of sustainable career. They set out an agenda for future research. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format

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“…An individual's career development is caused by a complex and dynamic interaction between environmental and personal factors (Retkowsky et al, 2023 ). Mariani et al ( 2023 ) pointed out that the accumulation of personal resources can improve a person's employability, increase the ability to respond to the threat of career events, and enhance career adaptability in the case of complex career prospects.…”

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Risk perception of coronavirus disease 2019 and career adaptability among college students: the mediating effect of hope and sense of mastery

Ding

2023

Front. Psychol.

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The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has not only caused widespread economic recession but also had a serious negative impact on the employment of college students. However, little is known about the relationship and mechanisms between the risk perception of COVID-19 and career adaptability. This study aimed to examine whether the risk perception of COVID-19 is associated with career adaptability directly and indirectly through hope and a sense of mastery in college students. A questionnaire survey was conducted among 594 Chinese college students aged 16 to 25, who completed assessments on risk perception of COVID-19, career adaptability, hope, and sense of mastery. The results showed that susceptibility was negatively associated with career confidence, control, and curiosity; moreover, susceptibility indirectly affected career adaptability (including concern, confidence, control, and curiosity) through the sense of mastery; uncontrollable indirectly affected career concern through hope; and uncontrollable indirectly affected career adaptability (including concern, confidence, control, and curiosity) through hope and the sense of mastery. The findings emphasize the role of hope and a sense of mastery in the career adaptability of college students and reveal the necessity of improving hope and a sense of mastery to promote college students' career development. “Implications and limitations are discussed”.

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Toward a sustainable career perspective on contingent work: a critical review and a research agenda

Cited by 14 publications

References 110 publications

Career Sustainability: Framing the Past to Adapt in the Present for a Sustainable Future

Career Sustainability: Framing the Past to Adapt in the Present for a Sustainable Future

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Risk perception of coronavirus disease 2019 and career adaptability among college students: the mediating effect of hope and sense of mastery

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