Yehuda Baruch

• DSc
• Professor at University of Southampton

Achieving top leadership positions is a career goal for many, including those in academia. Despite the increasing size and importance of the higher education sector, the literature on university presidents' careers remains scarce. We interviewed 48 university presidents in three academic models (UK, France, and Vietnam) to identify the ‘why’ and ‘h...

Purpose Gender-based discrimination (GBD) in the workplace is a worldwide phenomenon. Both developed and developing states face this issue at different levels and magnitudes, though in the latter, it is more prevalent. We explore the overlooked possible root causes of workplace GBD. Design/methodology/approach Employing qualitative methods, data w...

The context in which careers develop is attracting increasing scholarly attention. Building on career ecosystem theory, we examine how societal and organizational actors within career ecosystems influence the development of careers. In our study of university leaders in 60 countries, we find that career trajectories are more similar within than acr...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to discuss the way future workplaces may operate and how careers will be developed under possible extreme scenarios. Design/methodology/approach We propose a thought-provoking conceptual discussion of the challenges for people’s careers under such scenarios. Findings We identified four such possible extreme sc...

Geographical location sets the broad scene for people's access to knowledge and resources that are critical for career progression. Acknowledging the importance of location and following calls for a contextualized approach to career studies, an increasing body of literature on career success has incorporated geographical considerations over the pas...

In this editorial we present and discuss the three papers published in this special section titled Spirituality at the Workplace and Career Sustainability . The aim of this special issue is to enhance both our conceptual understanding and to add empirical evidence on the question whether spirituality and career sustainability are linked to one anot...

Purpose Human Resource Management (HRM) is a critical organizational function, which has continued to evolve. We aim to explore how different HRM will be in the workplace of the future and why, from both strategic and practical perspectives. We present and discuss core HRM practices, such as recruitment, selection and training, as well as periphera...

Purpose The increasing complexity of global labor markets and work environments has made the school-to-work transition more difficult. We explore factors that influence important career outcomes for young adults in China as they transition from their university to the labor market. Specifically, we examine how protean career orientation, self-perce...

This chapter explores careers in China by examining work-related and non-work-related aspects. In China, working is often seen as a family responsibility. Still, many studies have focused solely on career outcomes in the workplace without considering factors such as work-life values and cultural differences. Our approach provides a broader understa...

Our paper advances the embryonic interest of combining the theoretical frameworks of sustainable career and career ecosystem into a sustainable career ecosystem theory by introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a new actor, spotlighting the need for liminality of the relationship between an individual and career practitioner, and presenting a n...

Academic entrepreneurship (AE) has gained widespread acclaim globally for bridging the gap between academia and industry, as well as addressing the issue of socio-economic inclusion and the impact of research. In this paper, we both relate to, and extend scholarly work in the domains of AE and social inclusion by investigating the process of AE fro...

This paper aims to conceptualise and operationalise an Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM) via a systematic literature review of 42,558 manuscripts from Web of Science and Scopus databases published between 2016 and 2022 from the fields of graduate employability and career development incorporating applied psychology, business, education, and...

Drawing on human capital theory, we explore the impact of global mobility on individuals and their employing firms. We also investigate the role of cultural distance between workers who move across country borders and the local culture, and the role that HRM may play to improve capitalizing on global talent mobility. We use a big data set comprisin...

This provocation challenges the current view that practicing HARKing (Hypothesizing After Results are Known) must be avoided under all circumstances. I explain why and under which circumstances scholars may be allowed, even encouraged, to follow this practice. I use the extant literature and specific cases to show how HARKing can help generate new...

How do universities encourage academics to buy into a shared vision while often setting punitive targets in teaching and research? This article explores possible antecedents of a university’s shared vision and its relationships with academics’ research and teaching performance in the era of managerialism. This cross-country study of two large unive...

This chapter frames university graduates as the talent that flows between higher education institutions and industry. Higher education institutions aim to produce employable graduates, university graduates aim to secure graduate-level employment as part of a sustainable career, and organizations seek to secure graduates as part of the global war fo...

While it is known that high-quality human resource management (HRM) contributes to organizational performance, the process through which individual outcomes are influenced is understudied. Further, not all HRM practices are similarly influential in making impact on performance. We introduce and empirically test a theoretical model that explores the...

Little research has focused on the consequences of corruption on civil servants’ performance outside OECD countries. Yet, corruption is endemic in many countries, and it is unclear how it affects performance and how can organizations use HRM practices to tackle the issue. While most research remains at the national level, we explored corruption’s i...

This paper provides insights into the opportunities and risks that the technological transformation of Human Resource Development (HRD) presents in the context of early career talent in the accounting, banking, and finance sector. Three research questions are explored. (1) What opportunities exist for organizations investing in technology as a tale...

Current literature focuses on factors that explain career success but mostly ignores the role of chance events and the way they affect careers. Furthermore, the literature does not distinguish between different types of chance events and their outcomes. We draw on 682 questionnaires with both qualitative and quantitative elements completed by manag...

Purpose The board independence norm has shaped corporate governance globally, but research on the supply of independent directors (IDs) is limited. “New careers” studies suggest that dynamic non-conventional career paths are evolving, but empirical evidence is mostly limited to Western societies. The authors studied reasons for academics to conside...

The value of graduate development programmes (GDPs) from a talent management (TM) perspective is unknown. The contemporary TM literature focuses primarily on talent programmes for existing employees whereas less attention has been placed on externally recruited talent pools, in particular graduates. Attracting graduate talent is a priority for many...

Our purpose is to understand how universities and organizations have responded to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of preparing university students and recent graduates for entry into the global labor market, using the accounting, banking, and finance sector as a case study. The two research questions are: (1) How can university caree...

While many review and meta-analysis studies have integrated the micro factors and organisational factors associated with career success, studies investigating the role of macro factors in career success are yet to be reviewed. This paper presents a systematic review of fifty-eight studies that examine the links between macro factors and career succ...

Visual impairment, as a form of disability, remains understudied in the context of employment and careers. Drawing on career ecosystem and career sustainability theories, we explore factors that lead to career success and sustainability of visually-impaired individuals. We collected qualitative data from 66 visually-impaired individuals from India...

Purpose This study aims to understand the career path to the pinnacle of professional life. What does it take for an entrepreneur to become a global celebrity in one’s profession? The authors explore the career motivation, trajectory and outcomes of a niche population who made it to the top of their careers. Design/methodology/approach A qualitati...

With the increase and prominence of corporate social responsibility (CSR), it is important to understand the interaction between CSR and human resource management (HRM), drawing on multiple institutional logics that shape such interaction in organizations. Drawing on a qualitative study, we reveal context‐sensitive nature of the CSR‐HRM relationshi...

The report presents findings from three waves of data collection, summarising the learnings and implications for employers and policy-makers. The UKRI/ESRC Work After Lockdown project followed individuals and organisations over 18 months of the pandemic, and studied how lockdown-driven working from home was changing how people wanted to work in the...

The project has completed three waves of research, relating to distinct phases of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions introduced in the UK and, which enforced working from home for formerly office-based employees. This report presents insights from the waves of data collection and summarises the learnings and implications for employers and policy m...

Survey methodology has been and continues to be a pervasively used data-collection method in social science research. To better understand the state of the science, we first analyze response-rate information reported in 1014 surveys described in 703 articles from 17 journals from 2010 to 2020. Results showed a steady increase in average response ra...

Purpose The field of careers studies is complex and fragmented. The aim of this paper is to detail why it is important to study careers, what we study and how we study key issues in this evolving field. Design/methodology/approach Key theories, concepts and models are briefly reviewed to lay the groundwork for offering an agenda for future researc...

Career research has focused on the changing structures of careers, mainly in the private sector. Recent literature on employment patterns in the public sector suggests that career structures are evolving, gradually moving away from their signature traditional structures to contemporary ones. However, empirical evidence of this change is scarce and...

This study empirically investigates the myopic behavior of the stock market toward firms’ human capital resource investment, paying particular attention to two key proxies: human resource expenditure and the firm value added allocated to the employees. Focusing on human capital resource investment decisions’ alignment with near versus longer-term e...

Our purpose is to understand how universities and organizations have responded to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID) in terms of preparing university students and recent graduates for entry into the global labor market, using the accounting, banking, and finance sector as a case study. The three research questions are: (1) What characteris...

This paper develops a conceptual model of PhD supervisors' abuse and exploitation of their students and the outcomes of that abuse. Based on the literature about destructive leadership and the "dark side" of supervision, we theorize about why and how PhD student abuse and exploitation may occur. We offer a novel contribution to the literature by id...

p>This chapter reviews key constructs and defines terminology essential for understanding careers research as a field. The historical context and disciplinary positioning provide background for the identification of critical constructs, such as career success, and major frameworks, such as the Boundaryless and Protean career. Trends including the u...

Wouldn’t it be great to have a clear single decisive list to determine and define what quality should be assigned or attributed to each specific academic journal? Simply, the answer is – certainly not. To start with, it is not possible. Defining quality is an elusive and impossible task, as beautifully portrayed in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma...

Purpose The prevalence of artificial intelligence (AI) has considerably affected management and society. This paper aims to explore its potential impact on hospitality industry employees, bringing enlightenment to both employees and managers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from a survey of 432 employees who worked in full-service...

Our focus is on the working from home transition, experience, and outcomes in two industry sectors: Professional, Scientific & Technical (PST) and Public Administration & Defence (PAD), together representing 1 in 7 of all UK jobs, which we examine at individual and organisational levels. These sectors are interesting because PST has a much higher p...

A stylised fact in bibliometric research is that in the field of management studies, half or more of the papers published are never cited. If true, this implies that efforts and resources are considerably wasted because half of the academic work is not considered worthy by the same community that developed them. We studied a sample of 2777 papers p...

Purpose This paper explores the impact of high-performance human resource practices (HPHRPs) on the research performance and career success of academics. Design/methodology/approach Survey data was collected from 586 faculty members in the five largest public universities in Saudi Arabia. Findings The findings suggest that the HPHRPs of internal...

Purpose: this paper explores the impact of High-Performance Human Resource Practices (HPHRPs) on the research performance and career success of academics. Method/Design: survey data was collected from 586 faculty members in the five largest public universities in Saudi Arabia. Findings: the findings suggest that the HPHRPs of internal mobility a...

This article explores the role of cities’ institutional capital in the context of massive waves of migration from rural regions to cities in China. We examine reasons for and consequences of the accelerated urbanization process from both social and individual points of view. Based on surveys using a database of 8113 Chinese people, we identify and...

Drawing on learning and generational theory, we investigate the effect of socio-economic and contextual conditions on managerial learning and organizational development. Using data from 3657 managers across 20 countries, we untangle the interactive effect of national culture and generational cohort on learning goal orientation (LGO). Managers from...

This paper explores the role of cities’ institutional capital in the context of massive waves of migration from rural regions to cities in China. We examine reasons for and consequences of the accelerated urbanization process from both social and individual points of view. Based on surveys using a database of 8,113 Chinese people, we identify and a...

The purpose of this paper is to find out what do academics do when approaching retirement and why – as well as reflect on the process and consequences of reaching a retirement decision, for themselves, the university system, and the wider community. Our study concentrates on baby-boomers, as this large cohort starts to retire or be entitled for ret...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to conceptually articulate the differing needs of graduates and graduate employers, which can be competing or complementary in nature. Drawing from theoretical frameworks of career ecosystems and the new psychological contract, a set of propositions are presented using three themes: career management, developmen...

Career studies attract significant attention, but most of the theories and concepts were developed and tested in Western contexts. Based on a systematic review and analysis of 95 articles published in the field of careers that focus on China in the period between 1991 and 2017, this paper identifies emerging trends and outlines a profile of the cur...

Cross‐border acquisitions are growing in volume and global economic importance, yet a considerable number end in failure. Many of these failures may be linked to people management‐related issues. We extend this stream of research by investigating the impact of the acquirer's aggregate human resource management (HRM) quality on cross‐border acquisit...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a career-orientation and employability-focused model in the Indian context in order to understand: factors influencing employability of graduates factors influencing expected salary gain. Design/methodology/approach The researchers adopted a quantitative method using a two-wave survey with a...

Higher education systems are currently subject to intense changes worldwide. Higher education systems in developing countries are particularly vulnerable and under pressure because of their political and economic conditions. This paper aims to provide insight on the drivers and barriers to innovations and strategic reforms in the higher education s...

Deficiency in information around Brexit has produced tremendous uncertainty. Our study employs perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU) composite-view and directional (state to effect to response) theoretical lens to investigate, through interviews, the impact of information on UK-based senior managers (SMs) and middle-managers (MMs) in understand...

This qualitative study offers empirically-based explanations of the dynamics of career mobility trajectories to self-employment, a popular phenomenon in real life but less so in the literature. Embedded in the career ecosystem of an emerging-economy country, we investigate the mobility dynamics of people in different stages of their self-employment...

This study introduces the concept of deviant behavior in a moderated-mediation framework of incentives and organizational justice perception. The proposed relationships in the theoretical framework were tested with a sample of 311 academics, using simple random sampling, via causal models and structural equation modeling. The findings suggest that...

This study focuses on the undergraduate self-perception of employability. We aimed to explore the impact of human capital, which incorporates social capital, cultural capital, psychological capital, scholastic capital, market-value capital, and skills. We also examined the role of careers advice and career ownership (protean career). Additionally,...

This article uses bibliometric analysis to review the Journal of Vocational Behavior (JVB) over 23 years. To conduct this review, we systematically analyzed 1490 JVB articles published from 1994 to 2016. We draw on this analysis to answer the questions: a) What key works did JVB articles build on during this period? and b) What key topics, articles...

Global demand for higher education continues to grow, with increasing numbers of doctoral degrees awarded annually. The global academic labor market is growing too, albeit at a slower pace, and this impacts future career prospects of doctoral gradu; however, evaluation of their career outcomes is lacking. We examined the career pathways of PhDs in...

Career ecosystem theory have been developed to explain interactions between individuals, organizations, and other actors, which influence the flow of human capital in response to the inadequacy of traditional career models. The aim of this chapter is to examine the relevance and applicability of career ecosystem theory to the Turkish academic labor...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand how students perceive their future careers and how university has prepared them to enter the global labor market; student perceptions regarding benefits vs associated costs of pursuing higher education (HE) on employability and earnings; and the anticipated barriers and how to overcome these in pur...

Psychological contracts, an individual’s system of beliefs regarding exchange arrangements, are key components in the construction and development of individual careers and the career systems of organizations and societies. In explicating careers and their management, multiple stakeholders are increasingly relevant to worker psychological contracts...

Psychological contracts, an individual’s system of beliefs regarding exchange arrangements, are key components in the construction and development of individual careers and the career systems of organizations and societies. In explicating careers and their management, multiple stakeholders are increasingly relevant to worker psychological contracts...

This paper acknowledges the manifestation of new work arrangements in response to evolving career systems, drawing on a theoretical framework of sustainable careers theory (Van der Heijden & De Vos, 2015) and career ecosystems theory (Baruch, 2015). Employability becomes significantly relevant to graduates as they evolve from HE into the labor mark...

p>This study empirically investigates the myopic approach stock market takes towards human capital investment decisions. Focusing on human capital investment decisions' alignment with short- versus long-term financial motivations of the firm, we examine firms listed in the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 over a five-year period using an e...

L’équité est généralement considérée comme un levier clé du comportement humain. Les recherches en comportement organisationnel explorent l’équité en tant que levier des attitudes des employés. Les recherches en marketing soulignent le fait que la perception d’équité est un déterminent clé d’intention d’achat ainsi que de comportement d’achat. Cepe...

The purpose of this paper is to find out what do academics do when approaching retirement and why – as well as reflect on the process and consequences of reaching a retirement decision, for themselves, the university system, and the wider community. Our study concentrates on baby-boomers, as this large cohort starts to retire or be entitled for ret...

Fairness is widely considered a key driver of human behavior. Organizational behavior (OB) research focuses on fairness as an employee attitude driver. Marketing research highlights fairness perceptions as a key determinant of both purchase intentions and purchase behavior. Yet, to our best knowledge, no explicit attempt has been made to bridge the...

Feedback loops are instrumental in the organizational knowledge creation (OKC) process across the highly uncertain and dynamic innovation's front-end. Therefore, managers should be aware of how these loops unfold, how to recognize meaningful patterns and how to steer them towards planned and emergent outcomes. Easy to say, difficult to practise! Th...