The Influence of Job Characteristics and the Family on the Propensity to Change Careers: An Expectancy Theory Approach.

Abstract

Valence-Instrumentality-Expectancy (VIE) theory was used as a framework for exploring the dynamics of occupational preferences and satisfactions of professors and department chairmen and the processes underlying the intention of professors to make a mid-career change into the administrative role. The preferred job was differentiated in each sample as predicted, but the different components of the VIE models did not uniquely predict attraction, satisfaction, and choice as specified by the theory. The chairmen rated the two jobs as equally attractive, but the professors as a whole were more negative to the chairman's job, and only a minority indicated they were willing to accept a chairmanship. Subscale analyses showed that greater power was associated with the job of chairman and greater autonomy with the job of professor, and that these job characteristics better suited the desires of the incumbents.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA036739

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  • Ann Howard
  • Robert A. Snyder
  • Tove Helland Hammer

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  • University of Maryland

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  • Biomedical
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