The role of developmental job characteristics and learning behavior in careers of MBAs

Lidewey E.C. van der Sluis
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Lidewey E.C. van der Sluis: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics

No 40, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: In this study an interactive model was used to examine the individual career development process on the job. The role of developmental job characteristics and individual learning behavior in careers of MBAs was examined by analyzing repeated measures of these research variables. We performed hierarchical regressions and difference-of-means tests based on these survey data from early-career MBAs. Several consistent relationships were found. For example, we found that obstacles and transitions have a positive effect on objective career success via instruction oriented learning behavior. This dynamic was found for the period of two years after graduation. For the period of only one year after graduation, it was found that planned learning behavior accounts for differences in the perceived amount of task-related developmental characteristics of a job and in the perceptions of personal career development. In addition, we detected stability’s of learning behavior and developmental job characteristics during the early career stage. The results provide a promising platform for future research on the individual development process on the job in a career era of personal responsibility for learning and development.

Keywords: Individual career development; Developmental job characteristics; Learning behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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