JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.
Executive Career Management: Switching Organizations and the Boundaryless Career

Author
Cheramie, Robin A.; Sturman, Michael C.; Walsh, Kate
Abstract
There has been little research examining executives who change jobs by specifically following these individuals both before and after their employer changes. By incorporating research on the boundaryless career [Arthur, M. B., & Rousseau, D. M. (Eds.). (1996). The boundaryless career: A new employment principle for a new organizational era. New York: Oxford University Press; Sullivan, S. E., & Arthur, M. B. (2006). The evolution of the boundaryless career concept: Examining physical and psychological mobility. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 69, 19–29] and applying Frank’s theory of relative standing (1985), this study examined factors that may cause executives to change jobs in the context of managing their careers. Our findings revealed that factors, such as age and compensation, were related to the likelihood of job movements as well as declining organizational health. Post-hoc analyses also indicated that executive job-changers received significantly greater increases in total compensation and were more likely to receive increases in organizational status.
Date Issued
2007-01-01Subject
boundaryless career; executive employment; career mobility; compensation
Related DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2007.09.002Rights
Required Publisher Statement: © Elsevier. Final version published as: Cheramie, R. A., Sturman, M. C., & Walsh, K. (2007). Executive career management: Switching organizations and the boundaryless career. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 71(3), 359-374. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved.
Type
article