The Relationship Between Dispositional Resistance to Change and Individual Career Management: A Matter of Occupational Self-Efficacy and Organizational Identification?

The perspective on career management has shifted from an organization’s responsibility to the individual ownership regarding one’s own career. Based on person-environment fit theory, the authors investigate how change resistant employees engage in individual career management activities. Occupational self-efficacy is tested as an underlying mechanism of this relationship. Organizational identification is examined as boundary condition affecting...