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CAREER PLATEAUING AND EMPLOYEE TURNOVER INTENTIONS: A CIVIL SERVICE PERSPECTIVE
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Profile | Who is Rachael Gunn? Paris Olympics’ Australian breakdancer who became internet meme
- In videos of her performances shared online, B-Girl Raygun was seen hopping around like a kangaroo and touching her toes while lying down
Among the various breakers competing in the Paris Olympics, one in particular has taken the internet by storm: Australia’s Rachael Gunn.
In videos of her performances shared online, B-Girl Raygun was seen hopping around like a kangaroo, touching her toes while lying down and seemingly squirming around on the dance floor.
Netizens were quick to pick up on Gunn’s unusual moves and catapulted her to internet fame with thousands memes.
But who is she? Let’s take a look.
Early years
Born in Hornsby in New South Wales, Gunn was a former jazz and ballroom dancer. She was introduced to breaking by the man she later married, who had been practising for 10 years.
Although Gunn grew up dancing, she did not start competing in breaking competitions until her mid-twenties.
“I wasn’t a sporty kid, I was more of a dance kid,” Gunn had said. “I never thought the Olympics would be on the cards for me. It’s such a privilege and it’s hugely exciting.”
Breakdancing career
Gunn graduated university with her PHD thesis focusing on ‘the intersection of gender and Sydney’s breaking culture’ in 2017.
By 2020, Gunn worked her way up to become the Australian Breaking Association’s top ranked B-Girl.
She took part at the World Breaking Championships in Paris in 2021 and in Seoul 12 months later, and qualified for the Paris Games via the Oceania Championships in October 2023.
“I think a lot of people had doubted my ability to do it and maybe thought I was getting too old to be able to stay on top,” she said. “But I just kept pushing hard, I want to get better, and I want the scene to grow and get better.
Gunn’s experience had also influenced her beyond the dance floor as well.
She is a lecturer at the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, where her biography states that she is an interdisciplinary and practice-based researcher interested in the cultural politics of breaking.
Internet fame
Despite Gunn’s experience in the discipline, her unique performance at the Paris Olympics quickly went viral on social media.
She finished the group phase with no points, which led many to question how she earned qualification.
Despite the jokes, Gunn defended her performance.
“I was never going to beat these girls on what they do best, the dynamic and the power moves, so I wanted to move differently, be artistic and creative because how many chances do you get in a lifetime to do that on an international stage?,” she said.
“I was always the underdog and wanted to make my mark in a different way.”
The memes drew an impassioned defence from Australia’s chef de mission Anna Meares as she hit out at “trolls and keyboard warriors”.
“If you don’t know Rachael’s story, in 2008, she was locked in a room crying, being involved in a male dominated sport as the only woman and it took great courage for her to continue on and fight for her opportunity to participate in a sport that she loved,” she said.
Meares noted that Gunn was the best female breakdancer the country had and was an “absolutely loved member” of the Olympic team.
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1. Introduction. Over the past several decades, career plateaus have become more common and received increased attention from both researchers and practitioners due to rapid changes in the work environment, including advancements in technology, downsizing, and the flattening of organizational structures (Yang et al., 2019).The concept of career plateau was first proposed in the late 1970s and ...
1 INTRODUCTION. Perceived career plateau is the point at which people feel that further career advance is less likely to occur (Ference et al., 1977; Hall, 1985).Such career advancement blockage happens both vertically and horizontally, as employees perceive plateaus not only because of promotion barriers, but also because they cease to receive work assignments with increased responsibility ...
The results of hierarchical multiple regression analyses indicate that career motivation plays a significant moderating role only on the relationship between perceived career plateau and organizational commitment. Perceived supervisor support moderates the relationships between perceived career plateau and the two dependent variables.
An Analysis of the Career Plateaus in Accountancy Victor Ficarra SPRING 2021 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a baccalaureate degree in Business ... I would like to thank my thesis supervisor, Dr. VeronicaGodshalk, for her support throughout the completion of this project. Her oversight,insight, intuition and ...
Master's thesis Work, Organization and Health Relationship between learning organization, transformational leadership, career plateau and employability Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Date: 31.07.2020 Name: Maike Blumenthal Student number: s4413652 University supervisor: Cécile Boot External supervisor: Rikkie Dautzenberg and Annemarijke Graat
Some employees believe that a plateau can be healthy for professionals, particularly those who have not attained a breakthrough in their careers (Kreuter, 1993). Empirical studies reviewed above showed that the effects of career plateauing on the employees' work attitudes could be both positive and negative.
The thesis also explores the concept of Subjective Career Plateau (SCP), a subjective state where an individual believes that the probability of future career advancement, both in terms of hierarchical progression and lateral diversification are low. Data are presented which examine the effect of Subjective Career Plateau on Vitality at Work.
The purpose of this study was to inve stigate the relationship between career. plateauing and mentoring. More specifical ly, this study attempted to address an. empirical gap in the literature by ...
The study also shows that the explanatory power of the subjective career plateau is significantly greater than that of objective career plateau. The explained variance in reactions is increased by at most 1% with the introduction of objective plateau for career satisfaction, while introducing subjective plateau into the model has the effect of ...
This paper presents a review of career plateau research published between 1977 and 2017 and includes 72 empirical sources. Focusing on hierarchical and job content plateau, the review adopts a social exchange perspective in explaining why the two types of plateau are linked with various unfavourable work outcomes, what the mechanisms and ...
Career plateaus. Employees' careers are considered plateaued "when the likelihood of receiving further assignments of increased responsibility and challenge is low" (Feldman & Weitz, 1988, p.70).This happens when employees have acquired in-depth knowledge and strong skills in their current responsibilities and the chances of obtaining further responsibility in the future is small.
This research posits that job plateau too has negative effects on career and job satisfaction, and that the variance accounted for by job plateau is more than that by career plateau. This research examines the conceptualization of career plateau and develops a related concept known as job plateau. Job plateau is defined as the point whereby the individual finds the work boring and that it ...
In light of the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on organizations and company human resource policies, multiple changes have been made to employee work behaviors. This paper developed a concept model on career plateaus, job burnout, work engagement, and turnover intention and examined it through a non-random sampling survey of 285 employees at resorts in Macao. The results revealed that career ...
Career plateauing occurs when an individual has limited potential for upward movement in his or her career (Ference, Stoner, & Warren, 1977). Career plateauing is receiving increasing attention in the literature and is viewed by some researchers as the most pressing problem facing business in this decade ...
Job satisfaction, perceived career plateau, and the perception of promotability: A correlational study in television media. Miles, Shon. Walden University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2010. 3396571. Preview - PDF. Abstract/Details. Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest ...
this study, career plateau, is a si tuation that employees can experience. throughout their c areer. Career plateau is the absence or lack of vertical or. horizontal promotion opportunities in an ...
Lentz, E. (2004). The link between the career plateau and mentoring: Addressing the empirical gap.M.A. Thesis. Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida. Lentz, E. & Allen, T. D. (2009).The role of mentoring others in the career plateauing phenomenon.Group and . Organizational Management, 34 (3), 358-384.
As a result, many employees face a low likelihood of further promotions (a plateau) earlier in their career than expected. Career plateauing is believed to have negative consequences for individuals, though previous research has been inconclusive. Using improved measures, I tested two theoretical processes that explain negative effects of ...
of career plateauing and to determine whether individuals' experiences of career plateauing (as antecedent) positively or negatively predict their job satisfaction, motivation, and work engagement (as consequences).
the same definition as the Heilmann, et al., (2008) definition of career plateau; the point where . ... A research thesis submitted to the School of Education in partial fulfilment of .
career plateau and career, job satisfaction and turnover intention among head nurses (n=98). The mean score of total career plateau was highest (41.18±3.65), and the mean score of total career satisfaction (13.60±4.39) and job satisfaction (56.64±12.16) was lowest, but the mean score of total turnover intention (9.41±2.63) was highest.
Managerial careers are characterized by early rapid upward mobility followed by inevitable leveling-off or plateauing. Based on interviews with managers in nine major organizations, a general dynamic model of managerial careers is presented. Some key issues associated with the career plateau are isolated and suggestions for managing the plateau process are offered.
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper was to review the various studies on the relationship between career plateauing, turnover intentions and teacher decisions in order to pursue further studies. METHODS: The empirical study focused on the forms of career plateauing faced by teachers, the relationship between career plateauing and turnover intentions, the relationship between turnover intentions ...
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Breakdancing career. Gunn graduated university with her PHD thesis focusing on 'the intersection of gender and Sydney's breaking culture' in 2017. By 2020, Gunn worked her way up to become ...
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