Employment Intentions Research Articles

Age Well, Work Well: Relationship of Healthy Aging with Career Commitment and Bridge Employment Intentions among Pre-Retirees

Old age is considered an achievement to complete the milestones of one's life. However, the aging population presents significant economic, social, and health challenges. There is a need to address these challenges by focusing on bridge employment after retirement and considering healthy aging an essential part of later life. This correlational research aims to study the relationship between healthy ageing, career commitment and bridge employment intention among pre-retirees. Sample of 308 older employees (M= 57.79, SD= 1.88) was selected from government educational sector of Lahore, Pakistan by using non probability purposive sampling technique. The measure included Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire, The Occupational Commitment Scale, and Bridge Employment Intention Scale. Results indicate a significant positive relation of healthy aging with career commitment (r = .27, p< .05) and bridge employment intention (r = .17, p< .05) of pre-retirees. Inversely, employee’s education has significant negative relationship with healthy ageing (r = -.12, p< .05), career commitment (r = -.19, p< .01) and bridge employment intention (r = -.29, p< .01). Further, the mediation analysis through Hayes process macro model 4 revealed that career commitment mediates the relationship between healthy aging and bridge employment intention. The study provides a valuable insight and suggested that the organizations should value experienced employees for institutional growth and implement flexible work arrangements, continuous learning opportunities and health and wellness programs to promote work after retirement.

A Study on the Employment Intentions and Influencing Factors of Accounting and Finance Majors in the Context of Digital Intelligence

A Study on the Employment Intentions and Influencing Factors of Accounting and Finance Majors in the Context of Digital Intelligence

Research on the Influence of Self-Efficacy, Training Motivation, and Training Outcomes on the Employment Intentions of Unemployed Youth in Taiwan Government Vocational Training Programs

Research on the Influence of Self-Efficacy, Training Motivation, and Training Outcomes on the Employment Intentions of Unemployed Youth in Taiwan Government Vocational Training Programs

Managers, don't neglect your prospective employees to achieve your sustainability development goals

AbstractInstances of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) in popular media, coupled with its negative consequences behooves a systematic assessment of the consequences of CSI. This study responds to calls for such research. Specifically, drawing on attribution theory, we investigate the role of CSI on prospective employees' employment intention (EI) and negative word‐of‐mouth (NWOM) propensity and the role of other condemning moral emotions (OCME) in mediating the relationship between CSI and EI and NWOM propensity. In addition, drawing on construal level theory, we investigate if psychological distance moderates the relationship between CSI and OCME, and thereby, impacts the mediation from CSI to EI and NWOM propensity through OCME. Results indicate that CSI decreases EI and enhances NWOM propensity, and these relationships are mediated via OCME. PD enhances the effect of CSI on EI and NWOM propensity through OCME such that lower PD is associated with a lower EI and higher NWOM propensity.

Work values, perceived employability and rural employment intention among Chinese college students: the mediating effect of protean career orientation

ABSTRACT The rural employment of college students is necessary to address the lack of rural talent and realize rural revitalization. However, there are challenges related to intention, action, rootedness, and integration in college graduates’ rural employment. This study hypothesized that college students’ perceived employability and work values positively predicts their rural employment intention, and that protean career orientation plays a mediating role in this predictive relationship. A total of 2,303 Chinese students (females = 60.7%) from three different types of colleges and universities (double first-class universities = 23.2%, ordinary undergraduate universities = 35.9%, higher vocational colleges = 40.9%) participated in a survey using the Work Values, Perceived Employability, Protean Career Orientation and Rural Employment Intention Scales. Descriptive and demographic differences results showed that students’ rural employment intention was at a general level, and that those who were not the only child, from higher vocational colleges, were born in rural areas, and had low parental education had relatively higher rural employment intention. Path analysis results showed that students’ altruistic work values and perceived employability significantly predicted their rural employment intention, and protean career orientation was a significant mediating variable in this relationship. These findings have implications for innovation in college employment work.

Research on Factors Influencing Employment Intention of College Students in Qinghai Province

Research on Factors Influencing Employment Intention of College Students in Qinghai Province

The Impact of Social Work Supervision on Interns’ Employment Intention: New Evidence from Mainland China

Abstract Supervision is a key link in social work practice and plays an important role in the cultivation of social work professionals. This study investigated the impact of social work internship supervision on the employment intention of 271 social work interns from five universities in Guangxi, China. The results show that the employment intention of male students is higher than that of female students, and the employment intention of interns with urban household registration is higher than that of interns with rural household registration; internship investment and school–enterprise cooperation have a positive impact on the exertion of the supervision function, but internship investment plays a full mediating role between the supervision function and employment intention, whilst school–enterprise cooperation regulates the relationship between the supervision function and internship investment. Real factors, such as economy and social status, continue to be important factors influencing social work students’ employment intention. When conducting social work internship educational activities, schools should create a favourable internship environment and working conditions for interns and maintain good cooperation with internship organisations. This will facilitate internship supervision and enhance employment intention.

Employment Policy, Employment Capital, and Employment Intention of Guangdong Private College Students

The purpose of this study is to explore the employment intention of private college students in Guangdong, and to analyze the relationship between employment policy, employment capital and employment intention, in order to promote the employment and economic development in Guangdong. The study adopted a quantitative approach, using an online questionnaire to survey 612 students, using a variety of data analysis tools to ensure research rigor. It is found that attitude has a significant impact on employment policy and subjective norms on employment capital and employment intention, and employment capital plays an intermediary role in the relationship between these two pairs. The findings deepen our understanding of how individual attitudes, social norms, and employment capital work together to shape employment intentions, highlight the importance of cultivating positive employment attitudes and supportive social norms to enhance employment capital, and provide targeted interventions and policy recommendations for education and employment stakeholders to improve employment outcomes.

Family Culture's Impact on Chinese Students' Employment Intention

In 2022, a record 4.57 million individuals in China sat for the postgraduate entrance exam, yet only 1.1 million were admitted to graduate programs. Amidst this intense local competition, the allure of studying overseas has grown among Chinese families, with Thailand emerging as a favored destination due to its affordability and conducive Chinese cultural environment. This research aims to explore how family cultural capital influences the career aspirations of Chinese students in Thailand, focusing particularly on how parental educational expectations act as a mediator in this process. Utilizing a survey method, the study gathered 344 valid responses for analysis. Through descriptive statistics, correlation, and mediation effect analyses, it was found that in Thailand, the cultural capital of a Chinese student's family significantly boosts their career intentions. Moreover, such cultural capital profoundly affects parental expectations regarding education, which in turn positively influences students' career plans. The study highlights the mediating role of parental educational expectations in linking family cultural capital with students' job aspirations. The findings advocate for the importance of nurturing family cultural capital and reducing disparities in cultural capital among families. It recommends moderating parental expectations to lessen the academic load on students, based on the insights gained from the research.

Factors affecting employment choices related to the major of funeral services for Chinese vocational college students

Objective: The aim of this research is to examine the factors that influence Chinese vocational college students who want to work in funeral services and to offer suggestions and strategies for encouraging students to work in the funeral service field for a longer period of time.
 Design/Method/Approach: This paper selects students from Chinese funeral colleges and universities for a questionnaire survey. The data was evaluated using regression and correlation analyses in addition to interviews. The factors that influence funeral students' decisions to work in the funeral field were examined. 
 Results: The results of the data analysis showed that psychological and emotional needs, employment intention and family support ranked among the top three influencing factors for funeral students choosing employment in the funeral industry.
 Conclusion: The factors influencing funeral students to choose employment in the funeral industry subjectively are that the actual work does not match the work expectations. Objectively, it is an unadaptation to professional roles.

A Study on the Employment Intentions and Influencing Factors of Sports Education Major Students

A Study on the Employment Intentions and Influencing Factors of Sports Education Major Students

Study on the Employment Intention and Influencing Factors of College Graduates in Chengdu-Chongqing Region under the Background of “Talent Competition”

Abstract In recent years, China has set off a round of “war for talents” all over the world, and college graduates, as a high-quality group of people in the labor market, are the focus of the competition for talent across the globe. How to retain and attract college students is an essential issue in promoting the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle. An employment prediction algorithm for graduates is proposed in this paper that employs the HMIGW algorithm for feature selection to obtain the optimal feature subset. Then, it uses the XGBoost algorithm to predict the employment situation. In the meantime, a method for selecting fractal dimension attributes based on the binary firefly algorithm is used, and an algorithm for extracting employment willingness influence factor is proposed. In the analysis of the employment intention of college graduates in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, the number of college graduates in 2023 is 366,000; the growth reaches 18.83%, but the number of college graduates who stay in local employment is only 112,000. The mean value of all indicators for college graduates in the Chengdu-Chongqing region is below 4, and their overall satisfaction is low. The group not willing to stay in the area for employment valued the soft environment of the unit (P=0.012) and the economic level of the region (P=0.024) more than the group willing to stay in the area for employment.

Influencing factors of students' digital employment intention in higher vocational colleges: a qualitative research based on NVivo12.0

Digital technology has significantly impacted university students' employment, but its effect on their intention to pursue digital jobs remains unresolved. This study aims to qualitatively explore the factors influencing the digital employment intentions of students in higher vocational colleges. A combination of purposive sampling and heterogeneity sampling, supplemented by snowball sampling, was used to conduct semi-structured in-depth interviews with 20 employment stakeholders from higher vocational colleges in Jiangxi Province, China. NVivo 12.0 was employed to construct an influencing factor model of digital employment intention based on the grounded theory coding method. The results indicate that behavioral attitude, external expectations, and behavioral perceived influence the digital employment intentions of these students, leading to the development of a theoretical model. Based on these findings, management recommendations are proposed for stakeholders.

Study on the effect of clinical practice satisfaction and major satisfaction on employment intention of students in the department of dental technology who experienced clinical practice

Study on the effect of clinical practice satisfaction and major satisfaction on employment intention of students in the department of dental technology who experienced clinical practice

Estimation of peer effect in university students' employment intentions: randomization evidence from China.

As a key determinant of employment behavior, employment intention is easily affected by the environment, others and their subconsciousness, thus deviating from the optimal decision predicted by the classical economic model. Peers are an important environmental factor that directly affects individual behavior, but their effect on employment intentions has not been fully verified. The paper analyzes the class peer effect on university students' employment intentions using random class assignment data from a central province in China. It is found that positive peer employment behavior has a significant positive effect on university students' employment intentions, and this result remains robust after replacing the proxy variables. Further analysis of the peer effect mechanism reveals that the provision and dissemination of school employment information enhances the peer effect in employment intentions, while the help given by parents and family background weakens the peer effect. The results of the dose effect of the peer effect show that the peer effect tends to increase over time.

Encouraging Young Women into STEM Careers: A Study Comparing Career Intention of Female STEM Students in China and Scotland

AbstractWomen are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Whilst this is a worldwide phenomenon, there are differences in how this manifests in different countries. In order to understand this more deeply in a particular context, this study investigates the employment intentions of university STEM students in Scotland and China, analysing and comparing the intentions and the reasons behind them affecting young women in the two regions. The data represented 747 students from the University of Edinburgh, a large Scottish university, and Nankai University, a large Chinese university. The data showed that women are less likely to enter STEM careers than their male peers in both regions. In general we found that women in China had more hesitations about entering STEM careers than women in Scotland, but that Chinese women studying in Scotland had more similar responses to Chinese women studying in China than they did to other women studying in Scotland. Following an initial questionnaire, a semi-structured interview was designed to explore why the factors that affect women in different regions differed. Finally, combining the results of the quantitative and qualitative research, a number of recommendations are made that could encourage more young women into STEM careers.

Breaking the Moonlighting Cycle: How Ethical Climate in Higher Education Can Curb Secondary Employment Intentions Among Teachers

Moonlighting, the practice of taking on additional employment beyond one's primary job, is prevalent in higher education institutions. This study explored how the ethical climate of these institutions relates to teachers’ moonlighting intentions, considering gender as well. Surveying 189 teachers from various institutes, the research revealed a significant negative relationship between institutional ethical climate and moonlighting intentions. When the ethical climate is strong, moonlighting intentions decrease. Notably, gender showed no significant correlation with moonlighting intentions. These findings underscore the importance of a positive ethical climate in higher education to reduce moonlighting intentions among teachers.

Employment intention and career planning of male nursing students in different levels of colleges and universities: Aqualitative study.

To explore the employment intention and career planning of male nursing students at different levels of colleges and universities and provide references for formulating individualized training content. Phenomenological research method in qualitative research. Using a phenomenological research method, 15 male nursing students from three levels of colleges and universities were interviewed in a one-to-half structure, and the data were analysed using NVivo12.0 software and the Colaizzi seven-step analysis method. Four themes and 10 sub-themes were extracted. The four themes included professional identity experience, nursing learning experience, career expectation and planning and educational needs. The 10 sub-themes included the negative effects of traditional impressions, the gradual establishment of professional identity, public health events promote professional identity, negative experiences in learning, positive growth from learning, varied career plans, career expectations and influencing factors, a reasonable schedule, diversity of content requirements and the positive effect of teaching teachers. Influenced by many factors, the employment intention and career planning of male nursing students at different higher education levels are varied. Schools and clinical practice units should strengthen the training of employment intention and career planning and make reasonable time adjustments to the training content. In total, 15 male interns accepted our interview request. We utilized their break time to conduct the interviews, resulting in significant contributions to the content of the article.

Career Bridge Employment Intentions Among Academic Staff in Higher Education Institutions in Thailand: Understanding the Interactive Effect of Bridge Employment Practices and Work Passion

Career Bridge Employment Intentions Among Academic Staff in Higher Education Institutions in Thailand: Understanding the Interactive Effect of Bridge Employment Practices and Work Passion

Impact of Digital Economy and Internet on Non-agriculture Employment of Rural Labor Force in China

The Internet has extensively influenced all fields and levels of society as a communication technology. Employment in rural areas is also a controversial topic. This paper presents a brief literature review of the impact of the digital economy and the internet on non-agriculture employment of the rural labor force in China. The paper summarizes several technical articles and their Probit mode about the topic. The increased Internet penetration rate in rural areas helps reduce the income gap between rural and urban areas and the off-farm employment rate. The entrepreneurial income of rural households was significantly improved through the Internet. However, the overuse of the Internet will include the decline of non-farm employment intention behavior. The limitation and further research directions of internet and non-agriculture are also presented at the end of the paper.