Adapting careers to the COVID crisis: The impact of the pandemic on employees' career orientations.

This paper draws on event system theory and the literatures on career orientations and career shocks to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employees' career orientations. Factor analyses in three samples allow us to group seven career orientations into two dimensions: needs-based career orientations (those related to security, lifestyle, and health) and talent- and value-based career orientations (related to job content). We use a three-wave survey of Chinese employees to examine how these two broad orientations evolved in two time windows-one representing high, the other low event strength.

How can employers benefit most from developmental job experiences? The needs-supplies fit perspective.

While previous empirical research showed that developmental job experiences (DJE) lead to positive work-related outcomes, recent studies have also pointed out their downsides. With an aim to reconcile these findings, this study explores how the fit between personal needs and organizational supplies of DJE influences affective organizational commitment and voluntary turnover, and the moderating role of career identity salience. Multiwave and multisource data on Chinese employees indicate that affective organizational commitment was higher as needs of DJE matched supplies and lower in the case of a mismatch.

The new road to the top.

By comparing the top executives of 1980's Fortune 100 companies with the top brass of firms in the 2001 list, the authors have quantified a transformation that until now has been largely anecdotal. A dramatic shift in executive careers, and in executives themselves, has occurred over the past two decades. Today's Fortune 100 executives are younger, more of them are female, and fewer were educated at elite institutions.