Australian Journal of Career Development

The emergence of self-career management has pushed individuals to manage their careers proactively and evade unexpected events. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a career shocks scale for use in Chinese organizations. In doing so, we developed a comprehensive scale of career shocks to cover a significant gray area of career management and enhance a deeper understanding of the emergence of career shocks among Chinese employees. Using the mixed-method approach, we recruited multiple samples to validate the item structure and assess construct validity and internal consistency of the career shocks scale. The findings of a confirmatory factor analysis suggested two dimensions of career shocks (positive and negative), having nine items. Moreover, a strong inter-item structure indicated that this research measure would be valuable for future research endeavors in the domain of career management.

Zulqurnain Ali

Usman Ghani

Zia U Islam

Aqsa Mehreen

Measuring career shocks: A study of scale development and validation in the Chinese context

测量职业冲击：一项关于中国背景下量表开发与验证的研究

Sustainable Livelihoods are more adaptable than precarious jobs, for career development through Decent Work. An essential element for Career Sustainability is Climate action, that includes Just Transitions from carbon-intensive to carbon-neutral or regenerative work. This paper analyses a municipal transition from coal-mining to a more carbon-neutral, city economy, which has foregrounded just transition for miners, and improved the wider ecosystem. The Polish city of Katowice in Poland illustrates how work and career structures, in this case municipal, can work for people in everyday life and their future careers. The case may also serve as a lighthouse project for future just transitions, as part of sustainable career development, by greening economies and supporting access to decent work for all.

Veronica Hopner

Stuart C Carr

Julia Wloch

Sustainable careers within greening economies

绿色经济中的可持续职业

Maureen E Kenny

Annamaria Di Fabio

Editorial

社论

The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 8 (SDG8) emphasizes decent work and the need to generate employment for vulnerable groups such as women, youth, and low-income rural and urban residents. Though extended retirement age policies to sustain workforce productivity are promulgated across OECD states, within SDG8 there is no evident focus on older citizens’ need for decent work. We believe this goal lacks detail in addressing the specific needs of older and post-retirement workers and their equal vulnerability to inadequate decent work conditions, economic strain, and diminished well-being. We expand on this issue with particular focus on this older cohort's predictors and attainment of decent work and proffer the psychology of working theory as a foundation to redress the inadequacy of SDG8 and formulate recommendations for policy and research to recognize the needs of older and post-retirement workers. This approach is aligned with the Psychology of Sustainability and Sustainable Development framework in a lifelong perspective.

Jennifer Luke

Peter McIlveen

Older workers and post-retirement employment: A proposed decent work agenda

老年工人和退休后就业：一个建议的体面工作议程

Given the critical role of higher education in fostering social mobility and access to decent work, our study investigates how the college experience, shaped by social marginalization and economic constraints, influences students’ academic engagement and work volition before and during COVID-19. Drawing from the psychology of working theory (PWT) and decent education, we assess the mediating role of school belongingness and the moderating effect of COVID-19 timing through structural equation modeling. Our findings suggest that COVID-19 exacerbated the negative effect of social and economic marginalization on work volition and the negative effects of economic constraints on academic engagement, while also diminishing the moderating effect of school belongingness. These insights are crucial considering the profound disruptions in higher education due to the pandemic and underscore the importance of fostering school belongingness as a component of decent education to sustain student engagement and positive views of their work futures.

Maureen Kenny

Zhushan Li

Jihang Chen

Belongingness in higher education: Fostering decent education to sustain academic progress and equitable access to decent work

高等教育中的归属感：促进体面教育以维持学术进步和公平获得体面工作

This contribution proposes a fourth paradigm for twenty-first century careers adopting a sustainable development framework. First the evolution of the career development field through three paradigms (individual differences, individual development, life design) of career science and practice is offered. Then sustainable development as a fourth paradigm is introduced considering two pillars, Sustainability Science including contributions from the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development, and Human Security Psychology. Enhancing the well-being of individuals and environments, the fourth paradigm asks for redefining sustainable careers, career intervention, and skills for career counselors. Decent work, decent lives and healthy lives issues are included.

Paul J Hartung

Sustainable development: A fourth paradigm for twenty-first century careers

可持续发展：21世纪职业的第四范式

Abbreviation	Aust. J. Career Dev.
Journal Impact	1.36
Quartiles(Global)	PSYCHOLOGY, APPLIED(Q3)

ISSN	1038-4162, 2200-6974
h-index	17

Publication Information	Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2012，Proportion of original research papers: 93.33%，Self Citation Rate:14.30%， Gold OA Rate: 15.00%

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Measuring career shocks: A study of scale development and validation in the Chinese context

Sustainable careers within greening economies

Editorial

Older workers and post-retirement employment: A proposed decent work agenda

Belongingness in higher education: Fostering decent education to sustain academic progress and equitable access to decent work

Sustainable careers within greening economies

Editorial

Older workers and post-retirement employment: A proposed decent work agenda

Belongingness in higher education: Fostering decent education to sustain academic progress and equitable access to decent work

Sustainable development: A fourth paradigm for twenty-first century careers