Mostafa Ayoobzadeh

University of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · Department of Organization and Human Resources

Purpose: The present study examines leader development as one of the potential outcomes for mentors and investigates whether the provision of mentoring contributes to developing mentors’ leader identity and leader self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach: Relying on a quasi-experimental design, data were collected at four points in time over eigh...

Purpose: Freelancers are a growing population of working adults with limited to no organizational support. Yet, their strategies to navigate job search, especially in turbulent times, are unknown. To address this gap, I hypothesized and examined a sequential mediation model whereby freelancer protean career orientation (PCO) influences job search s...

Many doctoral students do not finish their studies. Social support has been shown to lower the likelihood of student withdrawal. I propose peer-mentoring as one of the practices that makes a significant difference in doctoral student attrition. In this longitudinal study, I investigated the influence of peer-mentoring on students’ motivation and re...

Purpose: As young individuals transition from educational settings to embark on their career paths, their expectations for their future careers become of paramount importance. Ng et al. (2010) examined the expectations of young people in post-secondary education in 2007; those colloquially referred to as “Millennials” or “GenY”. The present study...

Recruitment of high-quality international students requires meeting their career-related needs. The present study compares the career expectations of international students from various origins with those of their domestic peers. Data were collected from 23,950 students in Canadian Universities, 3,020 of whom were international students. Results in...

As a Human Resource Development (HRD) intervention, mentoring assists individuals in their career development. However, it is still unknown if mentoring could enhance individuals’ early career decision-making. Moreover, the literature lacks longitudinal research that investigates the role of frequency of contact in mentoring relationships. Therefor...

Drawing on several career theories and addressing several gaps in the literature of career development, we aim to investigate whether following parents’ careers and the presence of parents in the same industry with their offspring would increase offspring’s career outcomes in short- and long-term. Using a database generated from Hollywood industry,...

Drawing on several career theories and addressing several gaps in the literature of career development, we aim to investigate whether following parents’ careers and the presence of parents in the same industry with their offspring would increase offspring’s career outcomes in short- and long-term. Using a database generated from Hollywood industry,...

Employee creativity has gained an abundance of attention in both research and practice. Numerous studies have investigated the antecedents of employee creativity and the mechanisms through which these antecedents boost this construct. In this paper, I propose that leader emotional intelligence (EI), through follower perception of high-quality leade...

Academic mentoring literature needs further research through longitudinal studies. Moreover, no single study has considered mentoring as a tool to improve career decision-making skills in students. To help filling these gaps, this study investigates the impact of an academic mentoring program on protégés’ career decision self-efficacy (CDSE; career...

Based on a grounded theory strategy and through a constructivist point of view, this study seeks to explore and explain both negative and positive informal mentoring experiences and to find out the impact of these experiences on developing further mentoring relationships. For the purpose of this study, the author has interviewed five PhD students....

This study examines the impacts of educational courses of “ethics” on adherence of management students to ethical principles. In this research, 85 postgraduate students in management were studied. These students were divided into three groups. The first group included the students who had not taken educational course of ethics. The second group was...