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In Rich and in Poor: Career Success/Stress and Changes in Individual Differences
Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2024(1)
08/2024
DOI: 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.11942symposium
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Among the myriad grand challenges in today’s world as highlighted by the AOM 2024 conference theme, economic inequality is one of prime concern (Bapuji et al., 2020). While some people enjoy professional and economic success in society and the workplace, many are classified as the “working poor” and face enduring financial strains (Leana et al., 2012). Traditionally, organizational researchers have used personality and other individual differences to predict job outcomes and career success (Ng et al., 2005; Seibert et al., 2024) but have rarely examined the long-term, fundamental impact of work on the person. With widening economic inequality, a pressing research question is how people change as a result of their career success, or the lack thereof. Using innovative research methods and data sources with high ecological validity, the current symposium addresses this question with four presentations that investigated the longitudinal, reciprocal relationships between career success/stress (extrinsic and intrinsic career success, chronic underemployment, and job/financial stress) and changes in individual characteristics previously considered stable, including personality traits, goals, and values. Collectively, this set of studies contributes to the organizational literature by answering the recent call for management scholars to study income and income inequality as drivers of organizational behavior (Leana & Meuris, 2015) and further expands the outcomes of interest from short-term cognition, affect, and behavior to long-term changes and development of the person. Examining changes in personality and other individual characteristics as a result of work experiences and illuminating the dynamics of individual differences, rather than treating them as stable dispositions, represent a major paradigm shift for understanding worker behavior and experience in organizational research (Judge, 2023). This set of studies also advances careers research by incorporating a temporal perspective on career success and investigating the underemployed and financially strained—a previously understudied population (Seibert et al., 2024). Practically, findings from this symposium have important implications for the management and development of employees as well as effective utilization of human capital in society.
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- Title: Subtitle
- In Rich and in Poor: Career Success/Stress and Changes in Individual Differences
- Creators
- Rong Su - Tippie College of Business, U. of IowaJonas W. B. Lang - University of ExeterWeiwen Yang - Chinese University of Hong KongWendong Li - Chinese University of Hong KongKaili Yu - Chinese University of Hong KongHuanxi Zhang - Chinese University of Hong KongThomas Ptashnik - Providence CollegeRiley Cooney - Tippie College of Business, U. of IowaJing Luo - Northwestern UniversityEmily Willroth - Washington University in St. Louis
- Resource Type
- Abstract
- Publication Details
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, Vol.2024(1)
- DOI
- 10.5465/AMPROC.2024.11942symposium
- eISSN
- 2151-6561
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2024
- Academic Unit
- Management and Entrepreneurship
- Record Identifier
- 9984656612002771
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