A5015200615- International Student and Expatriate Challenges
- Higher Education and Employability
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Labor Movements and Unions
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Innovation and Knowledge Management
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Family Business Performance and Succession
- Competency Development and Evaluation
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Global and Cross-Cultural Management
- International Business and FDI
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Occupational Health and Safety Research
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Socioeconomic Development in MENA
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
National University of Ireland, Maynooth
2015-2025
University of Wollongong
2023
Central Queensland University
2023
Swinburne University of Technology
2023
National University of Ireland
2012
Purpose This paper aims to offer a critical review of how self‐initiated expatriation (SIE) is theorized compared migration in the management literature and indicate venues for future research on SIE. Design/methodology/approach A systematic has been conducted using ISI Web Knowledge database as well ABI/INFORM order include key journals field. Findings Despite importance present theorizations SIE, authors show that presents narrow focus most privileged expatriates some important knowledge...
This paper unpacks the dominant conceptualizations of talent management (TM) in contemporary academic publications, and considers these relation to increasingly important workforce population skilled international migrants. It postulates that TM approaches are generally built from a relatively narrow human capital-based perspective wherein organizations focus on readily accessible immediate skills, ignoring longer term strategic potential migrants, particularly for multinational enterprises...
Talent management (TM) is a growing field that concentrates on optimizing human resources so they provide sustained competitive advantage to organizations. While successful TM practices are widely understood include career development, the topics of careers and remain largely disconnected in resource (HRM) literature. In this conceptual paper, we review traditional boundaryless literature from multi‐level perspective, order theoretically develop TM, which date has been consistently described...
This paper presents findings from a qualitative study exploring the career-related motivations and experiences of sample 20 expatriates living working on permanent basis in south France (Sophia Antipolis) Germany (Munich). By virtue their having established local links host country, either contracts or being installed area (home owners; children born/being schooled country), these could also be termed foreign residents country. The study's highly educated workers originating United States...
This paper explores the separation and isolation from mainstream workforce that lesbian, gay, bisexual employees can experience due to their sexual orientation, how this affect voice silence in workplace. In response perceived threats actual of stigma workplace, we highlight need for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) organizations, while unpacking complexities concerns LGBT publicly voicing orientation at work. We explore employee networks help mitigate work, directly indirectly...
Is it time to reimagine the kaleidoscope career model (KCM) beyond gendered patterns? In this article, we draw upon KCM in a novel way show how skilled migrants, just like kaleidoscope, adjust their parameters and construct bespoke paths order cope with disruption of an international move. Specifically, study unpacks careers 38 migrants Ireland suggests alternative explanation for migrants’ underemployment. The findings that macro transition – from home host country presents both...
Purpose Skilled migrants' careers are heterogeneous, with existing theories capturing only some of their diversity and dynamic development over time circumstance. This paper aims to draw out the multilevel (macro, meso micro levels) influences impacting skilled by using lens intelligent career framework. Furthermore, structuration theory captures agency migrants facing different social structures at across levels explains idiosyncratic nature careers. Design/methodology/approach Following an...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore contemporary metaphors used in career literature pertaining development an international context.
Purpose Externalities influence the career trajectories of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) and their respective crafting. This study aims to explore international crafting SIEs (encompassing proactive reflection construction), taking combined external influences complexity, chance change into consideration. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ a qualitative (interpretative) approach, combining chaos theory careers (CTC) further understand, from an individual standpoint, impact...
Purpose This micro-level study unpacks the recruitment and retention of international professionals to small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The highlights influence founders' experience when applying organisational-level (meso) policies practices. With their insider as skilled migrants, we share how founders in each SMEs mobilised career capital into human resource management (HRM) strategies. Design/methodology/approach Combining literature on migrants' careers, draw upon intelligent...
Abstract Drawing from status characteristics theory, we develop a multilevel model to explain the relationships between gender composition (e.g., female‐female supervisor‐subordinate dyads, female majority at next higher level, and same job level) in workplace women's career satisfaction. We hypothesise that working with supervisor level will be negatively related satisfaction, while positively Moreover, propose formal societal (gender‐equality) institutions informal cultural...
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