Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.
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" offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through to retirement " (Business a.m, 3 December 2002)
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Work Careers— the seventeenth book in the prestigious Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's Organizational Frontiers Series— brings together in one comprehensive volume a panel of leading experts who explore the most recent psychological theories and up-to-date research on how careers develop at different stages of a person's work life.
This important resource focuses on the individual worker and offers a developmental perspective that links childhood and adolescent experiences with initial work values and preferences for work activities. Taking a chronological approach, the contributors analyze the basic building blocks of careers (personality traits, vocational interests, skills, and abilities) and explain how early experiences influence subsequent development of skill sets and career identities. They show how personal life issues interact with work demands and affect important career decisions. The book also reveals how changes in personal values and career interests change at different phases of the life cycle— childhood and adolescence, school-to-work transitions, early adulthood, mid-career, and late-career.
Work Careers examines how the careers of individuals evolve, not only in response to changing organizational contexts, but also in response to internal developmental needs as well. The book explores why individuals make the particular career choices they do and helps explain how changes in organizational context facilitate or frustrate individuals' developmental needs. At the same time, this volume explores the role of organizations and public policy in facilitating or impeding employees— developmental opportunities.
Finally, Work Careers explores the ever-evolving landscape of careers, including fundamental changes in job security, electronic commerce, and global business. The book also questions what it means to have a successful career and why individuals vary so greatly in how they experience their work. In short, Work Careers offers a wealth of information and analysis that can energize and guide both future research and innovative management practice in the area of career development.
This important resource focuses on the individual worker and offers a developmental perspective that links childhood and adolescent experiences with initial work values and preferences for work activities. Taking a chronological approach, the contributors analyze the basic building blocks of careers (personality traits, vocational interests, skills, and abilities) and explain how early experiences influence subsequent development of skill sets and career identities. They show how personal life issues interact with work demands and affect important career decisions. The book also reveals how changes in personal values and career interests change at different phases of the life cycle— childhood and adolescence, school-to-work transitions, early adulthood, mid-career, and late-career.
Work Careers examines how the careers of individuals evolve, not only in response to changing organizational contexts, but also in response to internal developmental needs as well. The book explores why individuals make the particular career choices they do and helps explain how changes in organizational context facilitate or frustrate individuals' developmental needs. At the same time, this volume explores the role of organizations and public policy in facilitating or impeding employees— developmental opportunities.
Finally, Work Careers explores the ever-evolving landscape of careers, including fundamental changes in job security, electronic commerce, and global business. The book also questions what it means to have a successful career and why individuals vary so greatly in how they experience their work. In short, Work Careers offers a wealth of information and analysis that can energize and guide both future research and innovative management practice in the area of career development.
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For the past twenty years, the changing organizational context of careers has received an enormous amount of attention. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
job embeddedness, developing global business leaders, bridge employment, career indecision, new employment principle, career anchors, planned retirement age, establishment years, changing organizational context, early career years, mentoring literature, boundaryless career, skill acquisition process, career resilience, vocational behavior, career behaviors, career development activities, socialization tactics, career insight, vocational psychology, achieving fit, career theory, dependence issues, important career decisions, complementary fit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Big Five, Journal of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, United States, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Career Development Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Van Maanen, Journal of Management, Upper Saddle River, Administrative Science Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Personality, Organizational Dynamics, Prentice Hall, Psychological Bulletin, Human Resource Management Review, American Psychologist, Thousand Oaks, Department of Labor, Palo Alto New!
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job embeddedness, developing global business leaders, bridge employment, career indecision, new employment principle, career anchors, planned retirement age, establishment years, changing organizational context, early career years, mentoring literature, boundaryless career, skill acquisition process, career resilience, vocational behavior, career behaviors, career development activities, socialization tactics, career insight, vocational psychology, achieving fit, career theory, dependence issues, important career decisions, complementary fit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Big Five, Journal of Applied Psychology, San Francisco, United States, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Counseling Psychology, Academy of Management Review, Career Development Quarterly, Oxford University Press, Van Maanen, Journal of Management, Upper Saddle River, Administrative Science Quarterly, Cambridge University Press, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Personality, Organizational Dynamics, Prentice Hall, Psychological Bulletin, Human Resource Management Review, American Psychologist, Thousand Oaks, Department of Labor, Palo Alto New!
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- Career Development (The International Library of Management) by Douglas T. Hall on 7 pages
- Human Resource Management Made Simple, Third Edition by Alfred York on 6 pages
- Social Psychology (MyPsychLab Series) by Robert A. Baron on page 60, page 238, and page 343
- Organizational Behavior (5th Edition) by Richard M. Steers on page 154, page 317, and page 318
- Career Development by Richard Harvey on page 19, and page 186
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- Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide by Lois J. Zachary in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Living Through Transitions; Harnessing Your Courage at a Personal Crossroads by Sharyn Salsberg Ezrin in Back Matter
- Resizing the Organization: Managing Layoffs, Divestitures, and Closings (J-B SIOP Professional Practice Series) by Kenneth De Meuse in Front Matter
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