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- Publisher
- Wiley
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1993 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- ISSN
- 0894-3796
- eISSN
- 1099-1379
- DOI
- 10.1002/job.4030140106
- Publisher site
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop a profile of employees in Fortune 500 companies who are willing to relocate. The profile was developed on a demographically diverse random sample of 827 employees from 20 Fortune 500 corporations, all of whom had moved at least once for their current employer. Employees who were most willing to relocate were younger, their incomes were lower, their career ambitions higher, and their spouses more willing than those who were less willing to relocate. These employees could be found in sales/marketing and production functions. Their attitudes toward moving were also favorable. The single most important predictor of willingness to relocate was spouse willingness to relocate. This result suggests strongly that in the 1990s, corporations are going to have to address the concerns of spouses, if married employees are going to remain mobile. The study also cautions corporations about the shortsightedness of thinking of spouse and dual career issues as ’women's issues‘ and assuming that females and minorities are unwilling to relocate.
Journal
Journal of Organizational Behavior – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 1993