| There is a vast array of literature, policy documents, white papers and popular press about geographic mobility in the European Union. Despite the extensive amount of information that is available, there are no frameworks that integrate the disparate sets of materials in ways that inform organizational policy or practice.;Through in-depth interviews held with sixty organizational leaders, professional recruiters and knowledge workers in Europe using a grounded theory qualitative design, this dissertation research reveals a series of propositions that can be used to understand and guide organizational behaviors around geographic mobility in the European Union.;The research proposes two distinct, yet inter-related frameworks; the Geographic Mobility Framework, and the Mobility Culture Framework. Organizations can use the Geographic Mobility Framework to make sense of the complex interactions of individual, organizational and external policy influences on geographic mobility in order to capitalize on the benefits of mobility. The Mobility Culture Framework will lead organizations to think about and better understand the influence that their own beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and practices have on promoting a culture of geographic mobility.;The propositions and resulting mobility frameworks that emerged from this dissertation will also provide a much needed platform on which to build future research agendas in this under-researched area. |
