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5028.68 University graduates’ occupation expectation and its relevant factors, Yongjian Song,
The Psychology Department, Jilin University, China
This Research investigated into the structure of university graduates' occupation interest. Four
components of occupation expectation were identified. They were occupationed motivation,
self-consciousness, environment-consciousness and personal career development.
5028.69 Optimism and Innovation in R&D processes, David Bush, Richard S. Andrulis,
Villanova University, USA
Product development projects in R&D include many processes that, when improved, rapidly
increase corporate profits. The impact of optimism on innovation was investigated among
pharmaceutical R&D managers. Managers were significantly more optimistic about implementing
small, incremental process changes than large scale transformational changes. Those that were
more optimistic about incremental changes also thought about innovation more frequently. Those
that thought about innovation more frequently used cognitive processes, such as asking the
purpose of their work and working backward from their goals. While the sample had not received
training in innovation, the respondents valued innovations that would have long term value.
5028.70 Vocational interests and work values in career counseling: Small but original
contribution of values, Toni Babarovic, Iva Sverko, Institute of social sciences Ivo Pilar, Croatia
Croatian version of Holland's SDS and VS-Value Scale was administered to a sample of
high-school students (N=827), representative for educational programs for six different
occupations. Using discriminant analysis, we tried to predict school membership on basis of
students’ interests and values. Results show that efficiency of classification based on interests
(56,7%) is better than the one based on values (42,5%), while joint classification (62,4%) just
slightly improves prediction. However, classifications based on interests and values are
structurally different, and in joint classification contribution of values is recognizable. Specific
contribution of single value of creativity is further discussed.
5028.71 Structure of vocational interest: Rational versus empirical conflicts, Changjiang Liu,
Wengming Yu, Shuhua Zhang, Yu Shi, School of Human Resource Development and
Management, Shenyang Normal University, China
In 1996, Tracey and Rounds proposed a spherical structure of vocational interest. In this study, the
plane structure of vocational interest intersected by People/Things and Data/Ideas was examined.
The first 48 items of Personal Global Inventory were translated into Chinese and the equivalence
of translation and back-translation was evaluated. 653 Chinese college students filled out the
inventory. The analysis showed that the structure is fit quite well if ignoring the semantic
characteristics of the measurement. Implications on the empirical and rational approaches were
discussed.
5028.72 Women’s career orientation: The factors influencing career orientation of women
incumbents of public institutions of Korea, Wan-Seok Gim, Sun-Hee Kim, Department of
psychology, Ajou University, Korea
This study investigates factors that influence Korean women's career orientation, and the
relationship among predicting variables and the outcome variable for 262 women incumbents of
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