Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
April 15, 2017
Summary:
Research shows that individuals experience a honeymoon-hangover pattern when they change employers. This study provides further insight into this pattern by comparing the experience of those who change employers within and across occupations. Drawing on the longitudinal data from the British House Panel Survey 1991–2008, we find that the honeymoon effect was primarily driven by the experience of those who change employers across occupations. Patterns of post-transition adaptation also differ between the two categories of job changers. While there is evidence of adaptation of job satisfaction to employer change within occupation, those who change employers across occupations experience a steady decline of intrinsic job satisfaction which continues for at least six years after the transition.
Published in
Journal of Vocational Behavior
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 99 , p.66 -78
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2016.11.005
ISSN
18791
Subjects
#524208