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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Meeting abstract › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - The work orientation of state ambassadors
T2 - US Academy of Management, Vancouver
AU - Hart, Dan
AU - Kempster, Stephen John
AU - Donnelly, Rory
PY - 2015/1
Y1 - 2015/1
N2 - This paper examines the work orientation of diplomats. Drawing on interviews with 57 Israeli State Ambassadors about their career, this study further develops Wrzesniewski et al.'s (1997) tripartite work orientation model (job, career and calling). Three core categories emerged from the participants’ accounts: calling, career and way of life. Those with a calling orientation assigned transcendence significance to their work, combined with coherence: they perceived their work as a service to their country, and felt it was their moral duty to undertake the work, despite the sacrifices it entailed. They also emphasised the fit between their work requirements and their abilities. Those with a career orientation assigned status significance to their work: they derived meaning from their position in the organizational, and valued the job security of their career-for-life. The ambassadors who displayed a way of life orientation assigned dominance significance to their work: they referred to all consuming nature of work, and the blurred boundaries between work, family and social life. They viewed work as a factor that dominated and dictated both their own and their families' lives.
AB - This paper examines the work orientation of diplomats. Drawing on interviews with 57 Israeli State Ambassadors about their career, this study further develops Wrzesniewski et al.'s (1997) tripartite work orientation model (job, career and calling). Three core categories emerged from the participants’ accounts: calling, career and way of life. Those with a calling orientation assigned transcendence significance to their work, combined with coherence: they perceived their work as a service to their country, and felt it was their moral duty to undertake the work, despite the sacrifices it entailed. They also emphasised the fit between their work requirements and their abilities. Those with a career orientation assigned status significance to their work: they derived meaning from their position in the organizational, and valued the job security of their career-for-life. The ambassadors who displayed a way of life orientation assigned dominance significance to their work: they referred to all consuming nature of work, and the blurred boundaries between work, family and social life. They viewed work as a factor that dominated and dictated both their own and their families' lives.
KW - Work orientations
KW - Calling
KW - Meaning of work
KW - Global career
U2 - 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.16445abstract
DO - 10.5465/AMBPP.2015.16445abstract
M3 - Meeting abstract
VL - 2015
JO - Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
JF - Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings
M1 - 16445
Y2 - 7 August 2015 through 11 August 2015
ER -