Journal of Vocational Behavior 77 (2010) 154155

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Erratum

Erratum to Protean and boundaryless careers: A study on potential motivators [Journal of Vocational Behavior 37 (2) (2008) 212230]
Jesse Segers a,, Ilke Inceoglu c,1, Danil Vloeberghs b,2, Dave Bartram c,1, Erik Henderickx b,2
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Management Department, Faculty of Applied Economics, City-Campus-Ofce Z508, Kipdorp 61, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium Management Department, Faculty of Applied Economics, City-Campus-Ofce Z504, Kipdorp 61, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium SHL Group Ltd., The Pavilion, 1 Atwell Place, Thames Ditton, Surrey KT7 0NE, UK

In the recent study by Segers, Inceoglu, Vloeberghs, Bartram and Henderickx (2008) [Protean and boundaryless careers: A study on potential motivators. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 73, 212230] a miscoding and a methodological inaccuracy were detected. This note corrects these errors. Although a large majority of the ndings remained the same, the miscoding and methodological inaccuracy had three consequences. In terms of the ten (sub)hypotheses, eight had the same outcome. Two (sub) hypotheses related to gender were supported in the current analysis, but two others were not. Women scored as expected again higher on values-driven motivation ( = .09, p b .001) and psychological mobility motivation ( = .13, p b .001). Women scored, however, higher on self-directed motivation than men ( = .08, p b .001), while in the original analysis, in line with the hypothesis, there was no gender effect. Gender was no longer a predictor of physical mobility, while initially it was hypothesized and found that men scored higher than women. Second, the cultural dimensions of Hofstede (1980) had a different inuence on values-driven motivation, self-directed motivation, and psychological motivation than in the initial analysis. Values-driven motivation was in this study not only predicted by low masculinity ( = .28, p b .001), but also by high power distance ( = .04, p b .001). Low power distance remained a positive predictor for self-directed motivation ( = .15, p b .001), but low masculinity was replaced by low individualism ( = .07, p b .001). Finally, for psychological mobility the reverse was observed. Low masculinity remained a positive predictor ( = .17, p b .001), but low individualism was replaced by low masculinity ( = .17, p b .001). Third, again four clusters emerged out of the data-set. Two clusters were similar to the initial ones, namely, Trapped/lost (low on all four motivational dimensions) and Hired gun/hired hand (only low on the values-driven motivation). The two other clusters changed. The initial Protean career architect cluster no longer had medium to high scores on physical mobility motivation, therefore it was labeled Solid citizen. The initial Curious/Wanderer cluster no longer had high scores on psychological mobility motivation, therefore it was labeled Wanderer. See Table 1 for a more detailed comparison of the clusters found in the two studies.

DOI of original article: doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2008.05.001. Corresponding author. Fax: +32 3 275 50 79. E-mail addresses: Jesse.segers@ua.ac.be (J. Segers), Ilke.Inceoglu@shlgroup.com (I. Inceoglu), Daniel.vloeberghs@ua.ac.be (D. Vloeberghs), dave.bartram@shlgroup.com (D. Bartram), Erik.henderickx@ua.ac.be (E. Henderickx). 1 Fax: +44 20 8335 7000. 2 Fax: +32 3 275 50 79. 0001-8791/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.jvb.2010.04.005

Table 1 Comparing Segers et al. (2008) clusters (N = 13655) with Segers et al. (2008) clusters reanalyzed (N = 13,645).
Cluster 1 Segers et al. (2008) (N =4150; 30.4%) Protean career architects Career motivators Self-directed motivators Values-driven motivators Psychological mobility motivators Physical mobility motivators Other motivators Level of activity Competition Fear of failure Power Immersion Commercial outlook Recognition Flexibility Cluster 2 Segers et al. (2008) reanalysed (N = 3224; 23.6%) Solid citizen High High High Summary Cluster 2 Segers et al. (2008) (N = 3035; 22.2%) Trapped/lost Cluster 1 Segers et al. (2008) reanalysed (N = 3476; 25.5%) Trapped/lost Low Low Low Summary Cluster 3 Segers et al. (2008) (N = 2793; 20.5%) Hired gun/ hired hand Cluster 3 Segers et al. (2008) reanalysed (N = 2968; 21.8%) Hired gun/hired hand Summary Cluster 4 Segers et al. (2008) (N = 3677; 26.9%) Curious/ wanderer Cluster 4 Segers et al. (2008) reanalysed (N = 3977; 29.1%) Wanderer Summary

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Demographic Characteristics Gender More women Age-group 4150 years Level of education University degree Work experience Management experience Country N 10 years 2 or more years Denmark; Netherlands, Norway; Sweden Consulting; consumer goods; education; government and public sector; health and social work; marketing; science and research

More women 3050 years University degree N 10 years 2 or more years Denmark; Netherlands; Norway; Sweden Consulting; consumer goods; education; government and public sector; health and social work; marketing; science and research

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More men 4150 years No university degree N 10 years 5 or more years Italy

More men over 50 years No university degree N 10 years None Belgium; Netherlands Call center; construction; manufacturing; transport and logistics

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More men 3140 years University degree 310 years Up to 2 years Germany; Italy, France Finances, banking and insurance; sales; telecommunication

More women 3140 years University degree 310 years Up to 4 years Germany; Italy; Norway Consumer goods; nances, banking and insurance; marketing; telecommunication

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More women 30 years or under No university degree b 5 years None Belgium; France, Netherlands Call center; education; health and social work; internet/new technologies; sales; retail

More men 30 years or under No university degree 35 years None Belgium; France; Italy; UK Internet/new technologies; sales; telecommunication

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