28th International Congress of Psychology August 8 ... - U-netSURF

principles by focusing on new qualities that enable speed, flexibility and customer focus. Present
paper analyses the concept with an overview of existing theories and paradigms.
4103.3 The gap between employees & acute; careers and managers policies: Guilties and not
guilties, M. Eduarda Duarte, University of Lisbon, Faculty of Psychology, Portugal
The relationship between employees & acute;career concerns and human resource managers
concerns is explored considering three main issues: (1) the apparent lack of contingence between
operational aspects of human resources management (Schuler & Jackson, 1999)and career theories
(Savickas, 2002); (2)the design of the implementation of a career development program in a
national organization; (3)programs evaluation. The interface between organization & acute;s
characteristics and individual behaviors are discussed.
4103.4 P-O fit: A learning orientation/self development perspective, Vatsal Singh, Meenakshi
Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay,India.
The extent to which the values of the organization and those of the individual are shared indicates
the degree of Person-Organization fit. The most important value of importance to learning
organizations is a learning orientation, and since it is an overall organizational value system,
therefore, it influences its employees' self development. The purpose of this research is to integrate
these concepts resulting in a learning oriented concept of fit. A conceptualization for the need and
measurement of fit between an employee's Self Development and organization's Learning
Orientation (SDLO-fit) is offered. It is proposed that greater SDLO-fit will lead to greater job
satisfaction.
4104 ORAL
Culture and psychology
Chair: Michael Mallaghan, UK
4104.1 A foreclosure career? College students’ career exploration and decision in Taiwan,
Hsiou-huai Wang, Center for Teacher Education, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China
Marcia’s theory on identity status depicts four types of identity statuses in career development:
identity formation, moratorium, foreclosure and diffusion. Research in the U.S. has found that a
majority of college students achieve the identity formation status in their career development in
later years in college. Studies conducted in Taiwan, however, found that a high proportion of
students are characterized by the foreclosure status even in their final year. This paper intends to (1)
investigate the meaning of career exploration and the deciding factors governing the career
decision of college-track students in Taiwan, and (2) explain the results from cross-cultural
perspective.
4104.2 Analysis of the role of shame in the construction of gay subjectivities among Han
Chinese homosexual men, Michael Mallaghan, Birkeck College, University of London, UK
Using grounded Theory to explore the cultural and personal issues and dilemmas faced by
homosexual Han Chinese men. using semi-structured interviews the pilot study (PhD study)
992