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Area of Science:

Organizational Psychology
Sociology of Work
Human Resource Management

Background:

Understanding employee work mobility is crucial for organizational planning and career development.
Existing methods may not fully capture the complex structure of potential job changes.
Incentives play a key role in shaping employee career paths.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce and validate smallest space analysis as a novel methodological approach for examining work mobility.
To operationally define work mobility based on organizational and occupational incentives.
To empirically test the proposed definition using data from system analysts.

Main Methods:

Smallest Space Analysis (SSA): A non-metric multidimensional scaling technique.
Operational Definition: Quantifying work mobility via amounts and kinds of organizational and occupational incentives.
Empirical Data: Collection and analysis of data from system analysts in Israel.

Main Results:

Smallest space analysis effectively visualized the structure of potential work mobility.
The proposed operational definition of work mobility demonstrated empirical validity.
Potential mobility was found to be structured largely as hypothesized, considering both organizational and occupational factors.

Conclusions:

Smallest space analysis is a viable and informative method for studying work mobility.
The structure of potential work mobility is significantly influenced by a combination of organizational and occupational incentives.
This research provides a framework for better understanding and predicting employee career movements.