Dear colleagues,
We are organizing a presenter symposium for the Academy of Management 2018 Annual Meeting about the 21st century school-to-work transition and are looking for interested scholars to join us during this session. A brief description of our plans follow below:
The 21st century school-to-work transition
Rowena Blokker, Jos Akkermans, Svetlana Khapova, & Paul Jansen
In the context of the contemporary career, the 21st century school-to-work transition has become increasingly protracted and non-linear, and more than one single pathway from school to work might lead to success. This makes realizing an efficient and effective labor market integration in the dynamic world of work especially challenging for young adults. Young professionals for instance increasingly need to take responsibility for proactively managing their work and career environment (see e.g., Akkermans, Nykänen & Vuori, 2015), and this requires new knowledge, skills, and abilities. Moreover, the topic seems to be divided in micro-level and macro-level oriented research, and a lack of integration of these perspectives hurts the overall understanding of the school-to-work transition.
In this symposium, we aim to present several research papers that focus on the 21st century school-to-work transition from both a micro and/or a macro level perspective. Given the growing interest among researchers and practitioners in this topic, our symposium aims to help 1) bring together literature from different disciplines to enrich the empirical evidence on predictors of a successful school-to-work transition in the contemporary career, and 2) inspire educational institutions and organizations who wish to more effectively support young employees in making the transition from school to work, and thus improve the connection between education and their early careers.
We are looking for collaborators who have empirical or conceptual studies that explore the attitudes, values, perceptions, behaviours, performance, etc. of graduates and young adults related to the school-to-work transition or early career success (micro-level: e.g., graduate employability). We are also interested in papers that examine macro-level perspectives related to these topics (e.g., including contextual factors, demand-supply, etc.). Any empirical findings that do not test these questions directly but still have implications for these questions are also welcomed!
If you have research that fits the topics mentioned above and you are interested in participating in our symposium, please contact Jos Akkermans (j.akkermans@vu.nl) before December 3, 2017. Please kindly include a brief description of (1) your research topic and, if available, findings, and (2) how you believe your research fits well with the symposium topic. Thank you very much for your attention, we look forward to reading your research and collaborating with you on the symposium!
Best wishes,
Rowena Blokker, Jos Akkermans, Svetlana Khapova, and Paul Jansen
Rowena Blokker
PhD Candidate, Department of Management and Organization
School of Business and Economics
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