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Work Careers
A Developmental Perspective
Daniel C. Feldman (Edited by), DC Feldman (Author)
9780787959166, Wiley
Hardback, published 18 October 2002
416 pages, Charts: 9 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 1 B&W, 0 Color
24 x 15.6 x 3.5 cm, 0.694 kg
" offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through to retirement " (Business a.m, 3 December 2002)
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.
Foreword xi Preface xv The Contributors xix Part One: Foundations of Career Development 1 Stability in the Midst of Change: A Developmental Perspective on the Study of Careers 3 2 More than the Big Five: Personality and Careers 27 3 Skill Acquisition and Person-Environment Fit 63 Part Two: Career Development Across the Life Span 4 When you come to a Fork in the Road, Take it: Career Indecision and Vocational Choices of Teenagers and Young Adults 93 5 The School-to-Work Transition 126 6 The Establishment Years: A Dependence Perspective 159 7 Career Development in Midcareer 186 8 Career Issues Facing Older Workers 214 Part Three: The Changing Context of Career Development 9 Public Policy and the Changing Legal Context of Career Development 245 10 The Changing Organizational Context of Careers 274 11 International Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: A New Look at Expatriation 294 Part Four: Directions for Industrial/Organizational Practice and Research 12 Organizational Assistance in Career Development 323 13 Advancing Research on Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective on Theory Building and Empirical Research 346 Name Index 373 Subject Index 385
Neal Schmitt
Daniel C. Feldman
Jill C. Bradley, Arthur P. Brief, Jennifer M. George
Cheri Ostroff, Yuhyung Shin, Barbara Feinberg
Daniel C. Feldman
Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison
Terri A. Scandura
Harvey L. Sterns, Linda M. Subich
Terry A. Beehr, Nathan A. Bowling
Jon M. Werner
Carrie R. Leana
Gregory K. Stephens, Allan Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall
Manuel London
Daniel C. Feldman
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
