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While job identity is significantly related to personality traits and adaptation to the work environment, few studies have focused on job identity profile or on its relationships with the characteristics of young adults. This study aimed to identify the identity profiles of young workers in Japan and examine their associations with these employees’ personality traits, job satisfaction, work engagement, and emotional impairment. The survey participants were 500 working Japanese young adults (46.6% female; Mage = 26.12, SD = 2.34). The results of the latent profile analysis identified four job identity profiles: achievement, closure, moratorium, and diffusion. The results of the Chi-square test indicated that young adults in part-time employment were more likely to be classified under the moratorium profile than full-time workers. The results of the multivariate analysis of variance indicated that young adults with high commitment profiles (i.e., the achievement and closure profiles) had higher job satisfaction and work engagement than those with low commitment profiles (i.e., the moratorium and diffusion profiles). Future research directions and managerial implications were finally discussed.

DOI： 10.1007/s10804-022-09435-2

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This study developed a Japanese version of the Revised Version of the Compound Psychological Capital Scale (CPC-12R) and tested its reliability and construct validity. The participants were 1,000 young adults (500 university students and 500 employees) recruited through an internet survey. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that the four first-order factors (hope, optimism, resilience, and self-efficacy) and one second-order factor (PsyCap) model of the previous study is appropriate for the Japanese context. In addition, Cronbach’s α and omega-higher-order of CPC-12R were sufficient. The measurement invariance analysis suggested sufficient scalar invariances for the employees and university students and across genders. The Japanese version of the CPC-12R had moderate positive correlations with job satisfaction, work engagement, conscientiousness, and extraversion, as well as a moderate negative correlation with negative emotionality. These findings provide evidence for sufficient reliability and construct validity of the Japanese version of the CPC-12R.

DOI： 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053601

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Purpose

Although individual exploration activities have been shown to promote organizational change and innovation, few studies have clarified the factors that quantitatively promote such aspects. This study aims to examine how individual exploration activities are facilitated by goal orientation and individual unlearning.

Design/methodology/approach

The data are analyzed from 1,474 employees in various jobs in a variety of organizations in Japan. This study uses structural equation modeling to test the research model.

Findings

The results of this study indicate three findings. First, unlearning is effective in promoting individual exploration activities. Second, goal orientation has not only a direct effect on individual exploration activities but also a significant indirect effect on such activities through unlearning. Third, performance goal orientation has an inhibitory effect on individual exploration activities.

Practical implications

Managers should encourage team members’ exploration activities by setting learning goals for members and providing opportunities for members to unlearn the outdated knowledge or skills they are familiar with and learn new ones.

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These findings contribute to the existing literature by demonstrating that learning goal orientation and unlearning play important roles in promoting individual exploration activities.

DOI： 10.1108/jwl-02-2022-0022

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Japanese Association of Administrative Science  

Although challenge stressors may contribute to young workers' growth,
there is a lack of studies on the effects of challenge stressors and hindrance
stressors on young workers in Japan. The purpose of this study was to examine
the effects of challenge stressors and hindrance stressors on competence
improvement in a workplace and emotional exhaustion and whether
these relationships are mediated by resilience in young workers. The results
showed that challenge stressors partially mediated resilience and positively
affected competence improvement in a workplace, while hindrance stressors
partially mediated resilience and negatively affected competence improvement
in a workplace. It was also confirmed that the hindrance stressor partially
mediated resilience and positively affected emotional exhaustion.

DOI： 10.5651/jaas.33.143

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Japan Society for Educational Technology  

DOI： 10.15077/jjet.44136

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Japanese Association of Administrative Science  

The aim of this study is to examine learning by middle management through the experience of new business incubation. We carried out a study consisting of semi-structured interviews of 15 middle managers working in new business departments of private enterprises. We analyzed the qualitative data from the 15 participants on the basis of the Modified Grounded Theory Approach(M-GTA) and constructed a learning process model. As a result of the M-GTA based analysis, it became clear that the learning of middle management through the experience of new business incubation had four phases: I. the responsibility avoidance phase, II. the reality acceptance phase, III. the critical reflection phase, and IV. the perspective transformation phase.

DOI： 10.5651/jaas.30.13

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Although "school-to-work transition" has recently attracted considerable attention, most studies on this topic have conducted retrospective surveys. Some existing studies have recently focused on students' experiences at university. However, the studies do not provide perspectives on effect of students' experiences on proactive behavior. Therefore, this study focuses on proactive behavior at work that could be linked to outcomes of active learning at universities. Using surveys conducted over three years, form 2010 to 2013, and covariance structure analysis, this study investigates the effects of undergraduates' learning behavior and student-life fulfillment on proactive behavior after joining their work organization. The data revealed that students who belong to an out-of-class community and who have a sense of fulfillment in their student life display a positive effect on their proactive behavior.

DOI： 10.15077/jjet.39090

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