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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
a Management Department, Faculty of Applied Economics,
City-Campus-Ofce Z508, Kipdorp 61, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgiumb
Management Department, Faculty of Applied Economics,
City-Campus-Ofce Z504, Kipdorp 61, 2000 Antwerpen, Belgiumc 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, pb .001) and
psychological mobility motivation (=.13, pb .001). Women
scored, however, higher on self-directed motivation than men
(=.08,pb .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 in uence
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,pb .001), but also by high power distance
(=.04,
pb .001). Low power distance remained a positive predictor for
self-directed motivation (=.15,pb .001), but low masculinity
was replaced by low individualism (=.07, pb .001). Finally, for
psychological mobility the reverse was observed. Low
masculinity remained a positive predictor (=.17,pb .001), but
low individualism was replaced by low masculinity (=.17,
pb .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. SeeTable 1for a more detailed comparison of the
clusters
found in the two studies.
Journal of Vocational Behavior 77 (2010) 154155
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