Covid-19’s Impact Upon Careers: Findings from a Global Study

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact upon how people around the world enact their careers and contemplate how to change them. This in turn has impacts upon how employees are led and managed by leaders and organizations. This symposium presents four papers based upon data gathered in several countries during the course of the pandemic. The papers focus upon the relationship between career meaning and career resilience with older workers, how gender and child care roles impact proactive career behavior, how career shocks impact the relationship between social support, career meaning, and career management; and, how career shocks lead to changes in career values and proactive behavior. Beyond careers the symposium portends implications for organizational behavior and human resource management. Age and career resilience during Covid-19: Career optimism and positive career meaning as mediators Presenter: Bernadeta Gostautaite; ISM U. of Management and Economics Presenter: Bryndis Steindorsdottir; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Silvia Dello Russo; Luiss U. Presenter: Emma Parry; Cranfield U. Presenter: Marijke Verbruggen; KU Leuven Presenter: Jean-Luc Cerdin; ESSEC Business School Presenter: Katharina Chudzikowski; U. of Bath Presenter: Richa Saxena; Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, India Taking charge while taking care? The effect of gender and children on proactive career behaviors Presenter: Marijke Verbruggen; KU Leuven Presenter: Maike Andresen; U. of Bamberg Presenter: Eleni Apospori; Athens U. of Economics and Business Presenter: Jean-Luc Cerdin; ESSEC Business School Presenter: Emma Parry; Cranfield U. Presenter: Astrid Reichel; U. of Salzburg Presenter: Lea Katharina Reiss; WU Vienna Presenter: Bryndis Steindorsdottir; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Pamela Suzanne; U. de San Andrés Shock waves: A global study of career well-being, change intentions and subjective career success Presenter: Richard Cotton; U. of Victoria Presenter: Robert Kase; U. of Ljubljana, SEB Presenter: Maike Andresen; U. of Bamberg Presenter: Adam Smale; U. of Vaasa Presenter: Jon P. Briscoe; Northern Illinois U. Presenter: Mila Borislavova Lazarova; Simon Fraser U. Career meaning as mediator between career shocks, social support and adaptive career behaviors Presenter: Jon P. Briscoe; Northern Illinois U. Presenter: Eric J. Michel; Northern Illinois U. Presenter: Pamela Suzanne; U. de San Andrés Presenter: Émilie Lapointe; BI Norwegian Business School Presenter: Evgenia Lysova; Vrije U. Amsterdam Presenter: Mami Taniguchi; Waseda U. Presenter: Richard Cotton; U. of Victoria Presenter: Silvia Bagdadli; Bocconi U. Presenter: Martina Gianecchini; U. of Padova Presenter: Sushanta Kumar Mishra; Indian Institute of Management Bangalore