Career frontiers : conceptions of working lives / edited by Maury A. Peiperl ... [et al.].
Contributor(s): Peiperl, Maury
| Arthur, Michael B. (Michael Bernard) | Goffee, Robert.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xvii, 290 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0198296924 .Subject(s): Career developmentDDC classification: 331.7 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 331.7 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00086382 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The topic of careers has become both increasingly important and increasingly complex. Contemporary economies have bought about changes in the nature of careers, and uncertainty in the structure and longevity of firms and their ability to offer long-term employment. Corporate policy-makers struggle with alternatives to traditional employment structures, while individuals struggle to decide whether and how they ought to become more independent of such structures, pursuing what some have called 'post-corporate' or 'boundaryless' careers. This volume is an integrated survey of some of the best current thinking and research on careers. Presented as a series of chapters by an international group of experts and knit together through themes and dialogues, it advances our understanding of the deeper meaning of changes in careers, and of the interrelationships and longer-term consequences of those changes.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Topics for conversation: career themes old and new / Maury A. Peiperl and Michael B. Arthur -- Part I: Career theory: Where do we go from here? -- Career boundaries in a 'boundaryless' world / Hugh Gunz, Martin Evans and Michael Jalland -- Motivation-selection-connection: an evolutionary model of career development / Nigel Nicholson -- Performance, learning and development as modes of growth and adaptation throughout our lives and careers / Richard E. Boyatzis and David A. Kolb -- Careers, organizing and community / Polly Parker and Michael B. Arthur -- Part II: Knowledge workers: professionals in the post-corporate age -- Theories of managerial action and their impact on the conceptualization of executive careers / Jose Luis Alvarez -- Promotion policies and knowledge bases in the professional service firm / Timothy Morris -- The 'architecture' of careers: How career competencies reveal firm dominant logic in professional services / Candace Jones and Benyamin M. Bergmann Lichtenstein -- Career as life path: Tracing work and life strategies of biotech professionals / Susan C. Eaton and Lotte Bailyn -- Part III: Work and non-work, boundaries and cultures -- Living lives of change: Examining facets of women managers' career stories / Judi Marshall -- Exploring boundaryless careers in the French context / Loic Cadin, Anne-Francoise Bailly-Bender and Veronique de Saint-Giniez -- Career, community and social architecture: an exploration of concepts / Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones -- Continuing the conversation about career theory and practice / Michael B. Arthur and Maury A. Peiperl.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Provisional Contents
- 1 Topics for Conversation
- Part 1 Career Theory: Where do we go from here?
- 2 Boundaries in a 'Boundaryless' World
- 3 Theories of Managerial Action and their Impact on the Conceptualization of Managerial Careers
- 4 Motivation-Selection-Connection
- 5 Performance, Learning, and Development as Modes of Growth and Adaptation throughout our Lives and Careers
- 6 Careers, Organizing, and Community
- Part 2 Knowledge Workers: Professionals in the post-corporate age
- 7 Promotion Policies and Knowledge Bases in the Professional Service Firm
- 8 Careers as Strategy in Professional Services
- 9 Career as Life Path
- Part 3 Work and Non-Work in Boundaryless Careers
- 10 Examining Facets of Women Managers' Career Stories
- 11 The Overworked American Manager
- 12 Workaholics and Overworkers
- 13 Making the Rhetoric of New Careers a Reality for Employees
- Part 4 Careers and Cultures for a Global World of Work
- 14 Career Development and the Cultural Context
- 15 An Empirical Test of Boundaryless Careers in the French Context
- 16 The Impacts of Mentorship upon Middle Managers' Psychological Empowerment and their Leadership Behaviour
- 17 Culture, Community, and Career
- 18 The Conversations Continue Observations and Trends (Conclusion)