I study sustainable careers of highly educated professionals in the context of intensified and digitalized society. Sustainable careers include dimensions of person (agency / adaptability), context, and time. Indicators of sustainable careers reflect healthiness, happiness, and productivity. As a psychologist my focus is on the individuals and their careers, but I utilize the sustainable career ecosystem framework that highlights the interaction with other career actors (e.g., organization and society) and considers sustainable outcomes for the whole system.
The aim of my doctoral research is to identify elements that are likely to promote sustainable careers as well as elements that might risk the sustainability of careers. More specifically, my ongoing research considers topics of employee well-being (burnout, work engagement), job changes and employee turnover, motivation, perceived organizational learning climate, and intensified job demands. Recently I have collected new data that includes experiences related to digitalization and use of AI tools at workplaces. I have focused on quantitative longitudinal research methods because of the importance of temporal aspects in sustainable career research.
