New challenges for human resource management: readiness to perform a mobile job and its antecedents

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Today, the general stipulation to be mobile in location and flexible with time includes in addition for many the readiness to accept a job where one is often on the road (on-the-job mobility). While the number of these mobile jobs is increasing, we investigated on-the-job mobility readiness (OMR) in employed and also unemployed people along with its respective demographic, social and personal antecedents in cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses. We hypothesized openness to experiences, uncertainty tolerance, and social norms to be positively and a collectivistic orientation, and social anxiety to be negatively associated with OMR. Regression analyses revealed that social norms (the perceived positive attitude of the social environment towards on-the-job mobility), uncertainty tolerance, and education level were positively associated with OMR, whereas a collectivistic orientation and social anxiety were negatively correlated with it. Moreover, males showed more OMR than females. Implications for HRM are discussed.View full textDownload full textKeywordsanxiety, collectivism, flexibility, mobility, social norm, uncertainty toleranceRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09585191003612109