Vocational Interests in the Workplace

Christopher D. Nye is Assistant Professor of Organizational Psychology at Michigan State University, USA. He has received awards from the University of Illinois, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the International Personnel Assessment Council for his work. More recently, Dr. Nye was awarded the Early Career Award from the Academy of Management Research Methods Division. He has also been a Consortium Research Fellow for the Defense Manpower Data Center and a Senior Consortium Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute. James Rounds is Professor of Educational Psychology and Psychology and College of Education Distinguished Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA. His publications have appeared in numerous journals. He has received the American Psychological Association John L. Holland Award for outstanding achievement in career and personality research, American Educational Research Association Outstanding Research Award in Counseling and has been designated a Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science.

• IntroductionChristopher D. Nye and James RoundsChapter 1: The Nature of Interests: Toward A Unifying Theory of Trait-State Interest DynamicsRong Su, Gundula Stoll and James RoundsChapter 2: Interest Development as a Dynamic Process in the WorkplaceK. Ann Renninger and Suzanne E. HidiChapter 3: A History of Vocational Interest MeasurementMichael J. Zickar and Hanyi MinChapter 4: Interest MeasurementOleksandr S. Chernyshenko, Stephen Stark and Christopher D. NyeChapter 5: Vocational Interests and Work OutcomesChristopher D. Nye, Sarena Bhatia and Joshua PrasadChapter 6: Personnel Selection and Vocational Interests: Recent Research and Future DirectionsFrederick L. Oswald, Leaetta M. Hough and Chen ZuoChapter 7: Vocational Interests and Meaningful WorkM. Teresa CardadorChapter 8: The Importance of Interests for Understanding RetirementLaura Venz and Mo WangChapter 9: New(ish) Directions for Vocational Interests ResearchRobert Hogan and Ryne A. ShermanChapter 10: Connecting Concepts: Effects of Diversity of Interests and Interests’ Effects on DiversityAnn Marie Ryan and Danielle D. KingChapter 11: Vocational Interests in a Global Business EnvironmentJason L. Huang, Shan Ran and Mengqiao LuiChapter 12: Development of Vocational Interests in AdulthoodBart Wille and Filip De FruytChapter 13: The Role of Interests in the Development of Expertise: A Multifactorial PerspectiveDavid Z. Hambrick, Alexander P. Burgoyne and Frederick L. Oswald

"Most adults spend 1/3 or more of their waking hours at work. Some people wonder, "What went wrong?" while others think, "How did I get so lucky?" Vocational Interests in the Workplace takes up such questions in a collection of essays by experts in the field. These essays explore the complex interplay of personal interests and work environments, considering jobs from the view of the organization, the worker, the vocational psychologist, and the measurement specialist. This book invites both casual and serious readers into the study of interests, embracing organizational, vocational, and educational psychology." - Susan X Day, PhD, Research Professor, University of Houston, USA