Careers of PhD graduates: The role of chance events and how to manage them

Kindsiko, Eneli; Baruch, Yehuda

doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2019.01.010

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“…The academic workers included had to be employed at the university with at least a 0.5 position. The latter guarantees that the individuals included are not occasional, parttime workers, as lecturing by practitioners at universities is common in Estonia [51]. All academic positions, starting from the most junior and ending with professorships were included.…”

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Academic Assets, Life-Cycle, and Entrepreneurship: A Longitudinal Study of Estonian Academic Workers

Mõttus

Lukason

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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This study aimed to find out how academic assets are interconnected with firm creation by academic staff at different academic life-cycle stages. The applied theoretical setting integrated resource-based and life-cycle explanations of academic entrepreneurship. A longitudinal whole population dataset of Estonian academic workers was applied, with a dependent variable reflecting firm creation, and independent variables representing different academic assets. The logistic regression results indicated the varying importance of different academic assets at different academic career stages, while divergence also exists with respect to academic discipline. The results enable postulating several theoretical propositions, accompanied by practical implications for technology transfer at universities.

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Academic Assets, Life-Cycle, and Entrepreneurship: A Longitudinal Study of Estonian Academic Workers

Mõttus

Lukason

2021

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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“…The planned happenstance theory suggests the guidelines for taking constructive action in order to create beneficial opportunities in career development [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. To begin with, the theory places an emphasis on exploratory activities [21].…”

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“…In recent years there has been growing interest in the concept's relationship with other career-related variables. Planned happenstance skills have been found to be associated with occupational engagement, career decision self-efficacy [12,13], intrinsic work values, career networking [5], life adjustment [4], career decision self-efficacy and decrease in dysfunctional career thoughts [14]. The utilization of planned happenstance skills may not only be beneficial with regard to career-related challenges but also to managing students' daily life issues.…”

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Planned Happenstance Skills as Personal Resources for Students’ Psychological Wellbeing and Academic Adjustment

2019

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Transition from the academic setting to the turbulent labour market requires more personal resources than ever before. In order to successfully enter and perform in professional life one must be ready to respond adequately to conditions of uncertainty and complexity. The concept of planned happenstance skills presents a set of competencies to deal effectively with unplanned events generated by chaotic environment. These career-related resources are extremely important for students pursuing successful adaption to professional environments and seeking to prepare for personal career management. The present article aims to analyze the role of planned happenstance skills when predicting psychological wellbeing and academic adjustment. Lithuania was chosen as a case study since there is a high percentage of people with higher education. The study was conducted using the quantitative method of questionnaire survey. Data of the survey were analyzed using correlation and multiple regression analyses. It was found that planned happenstance skills had a significant positive relationship with study variables and were a significant predictor of academic achievement and psychological wellbeing.

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“…The qualitative responses in Table 1 are relatable to some other existing studies. These studies include the role of post-doctoral chance events and their management (Kindsiko and Baruch, 2019) as well as the relationship between personal motivation and scientific practices (Janke et al, 2018).…”

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Autobiographical internal dialogue on TQM

Babatunde

2020

TQM

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PurposeTo present the internal dialogue of a TQM practitioner using the conceptual lens of reflective practice.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a pragmatic philosophical approach to collect qualitative critical reflection data and quantitative career construction data from stratified and purposively sampled respondents, using structured questionnaires. The qualitative data were analyzed through reconstruction, while the quantitative data were analyzed through co-construction using the percentage agreement value and Wilcoxon–Mann Whitney test.FindingsFive questions were found to be valuable for steering the internal dialogue for critical reflection, thus recommended as a must-have in a TQM practitioner's toolkit. This study found the career adapt–abilities scale to be a valuable tool for assessing the career construction of a TQM practitioner. This was supported by a 64% agreement and non-significant difference between the two groups of raters used, p < 0.05 (U = 3356.5, W = 7451.5, Z = 1.9826), two-tailed.Research limitations/implicationsThe pragmatic philosophical stance used in this study lends it to a certain level of subjectivity. However, the inputs from the three other participants neutralize the subjectivity. Most notably, this study is not about consensus-seeking but rather verifiable/testable self-reflection.Practical implicationsThe theory-informed results presented in this study are useful for the continuing professional development of TQM practitioners.Originality/valueThis study provides insights for applying an individual-level self-assessment tool for TQM implementation.

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Careers of PhD graduates: The role of chance events and how to manage them

Cited by 63 publications

References 79 publications

Academic Assets, Life-Cycle, and Entrepreneurship: A Longitudinal Study of Estonian Academic Workers

Academic Assets, Life-Cycle, and Entrepreneurship: A Longitudinal Study of Estonian Academic Workers

Planned Happenstance Skills as Personal Resources for Students’ Psychological Wellbeing and Academic Adjustment

Autobiographical internal dialogue on TQM

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