Using data from managerial jobs, job variables were measured with the Position Classification Inventory and job analysis surveys. Ten judges estimated expected correlations between variables and Holland's vocational environmental constructs. Data were inconsistent only for "Realistic," one of six dimensions of the RIASEC (Realistic,…

Undergraduates (n=92) completed the Self-Directed Search from the perspective of a clinical psychologist. Results were compared to profiles of 25 practicing psychologists. Students overestimated clinicians' most salient interests and underestimated the least salient. (SK)

Much of the responsibility for managing careers is shifting from employers to adaptive and proactive employees. A career management intervention based on action regulation theory trained 205 white collar employees to engage actively in their own career building by increasing their self-knowledge, career goal commitment, and career plan quality. As…

Investigated the relationship between education and organizational commitment. Results indicated that education has an indirect positive effect on organizational commitment by increasing work rewards, but a direct negative effect when work rewards are held constant. The latter finding is due to the higher work values associated with increased…

In examining the amount of gilding behavior a sample of female subjects attribute to different occupational statuses and to occupational statuses associated with specific ethnic minorities, results indicate that gilding approximates the general prestige rankings of the occupations when the status incumbent is perceived as similar to the subject.…

This study aims to test whether the amount of manual labor or the educational/intellectual requirements determines prestige in more traditional developing countries. Data from Afghan subjects were used for a critical decision between the two positions. Results show in nonindustrialized countries and industrialized countries, prestige covaries only…

An empirical validation of the 114 Worker Trait Groups of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles was performed by comparing the factor structure of the worker trait components of the 114 WTG's with the factor structure of a random sample of 800 of the 4000 jobs used as the basis for DOT. (Author)

This study investigated the relationship between cognitive differentiation level and the affective stimulus value of various occupations. Findings of the present investigation, conducted with upper-class college males, were consistent with the findings obtained in previous clinical and social judgment studies. Subjects were cognitively more…

Owing to the uncertainty concerning the concurrent validity of the SVIB and the KOIS, a test of accuracy of classification of men in the occupations common to both inventories was undertaken. The results suggest that neither show any less validity than had been shown in separate studies previously. (Author)

Responses from 280 female business graduates showed that 70% had mentors (two-thirds of whom were male) and only 39% of organizations encouraged mentoring. Those who reported more mentoring had mentors who were their supervisors, were in longer mentoring relationships, or were in organizations supporting mentoring. (SK)

Multidimensional scaling analysis was conducted on the responses of 648 college students to 110 occupational title items in the Strong Interest Inventory. A three-dimensional structure of vocational interests emerged: Data-Ideas, People-Things, and Sex-Type. (SK)

Structural equation modeling was used to test the discriminant validity of three cognitions--thinking of quitting, intent to search, and intent to leave--in 242 sales workers. Results demonstrating a different relationship among the three cognitions were used to revise a 1977 model. (SK)

A survey of 256 members of a science institute found that those who aspire to management tend to be more motivated by power, influence, upward mobility, security, respect, and the need for dominance. Some of these qualities describe persons willing to make decisions, influence others, and deal with interpersonal issues. Current managers and…

This study was designed to identify the important clusters of occupational groups identifiable from an analysis of the dimensions accounting for similarity in profile shapes among a set of 28 new vocational interest measures. (Author)