This review examines competing perspectives relating to (a) the range and prevalence of
different theoretical approaches to the study of career success and (b) the need for a …

Purpose Virtually all contemporary scientific papers studying careers emphasize its
changing nature. Indeed, careers have been changing during recent decades, for example …

This study aims to explore the influence of role stress (role ambiguity and role conflict) on job
burnout and job performance in construction project managers in the Chinese construction …

Perceiving work as a calling has been positioned as a key pathway to enhancing work-
related well-being. However, no formal theory exists attempting to explain predictors and …

Psychological contracts, an individual's system of beliefs regarding exchange arrangements,
are key components in the construction and development of individual careers and the …

Many people desire work that is meaningful. However, research in this area has attracted
diverse ideas about meaningful work (MW), accompanied by an equally disparate collection …

Work as a calling is an emerging concept for scholars across a variety of psychological
disciplines. In the current paper, the extant literature on calling is reviewed, showcasing its …

An important and underexamined issue in the study of callings concerns the challenges
people face in pursuing a calling and how they negotiate those challenges. This process …

How do self-direction and personal values influence career outcomes? Such questions have
been central in research on the protean career—a career process characterized by the …

We review and develop two alternative conceptualizations of meaningful work: a
predominant perspective we label realization and an underdeveloped, yet critical …