Career Frontiers New Conceptions of Working Lives

by Peiperl, Maury A.; Arthur, Michael B.; Goffee, Rob; Morris, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780198296911
• ISBN10: 0198296916
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-04-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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-makersstruggle 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 ofthe interrelationships and longer-term consequences of those changes.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xiii
Topics for Conversation: Career Themes Old and New	1	(20)
Maury A. Peiperl
Michael B. Arthur
Part I Career Theory: Where do We Go from Here?	21	(102)
Career Boundaries in a `Boundaryless' World	24	(30)
Hugh Gunz
Martin Evans
Michael Jalland
Motivation-Selection-Connection: An Evolutionary Model of Career Development	54	(22)
Nigel Nicholson
Performance, Learning, and Development as Modes of Growth and Adaptation throughout our Lives and Careers	76	(23)
Richard E. Boyatzis
David A. Kolb
Careers, Organizing, and Community	99	(24)
Polly Parker
Michael B. Arthur
Part II Knowledge Workers: Professionals in the Post-Corporate Age	123	(76)
Theories of Managerial Action and their Impact on the Conceptualization of Executive Careers	127	(11)
Jose Luis Alvarez
Promotion Policies and Knowledge Bases in the Professional Service Firm	138	(15)
Timothy Morris
The `Architecture' of Careers: How Career Competencies Reveal Firm Dominant Logic in Professional Services	153	(24)
Candace Jones
Benyamin M. Bergmann Lichtenstein
Career as Life Path: Tracing Work and Life Strategies of Biotech Professionals	177	(22)
Susan C. Eaton
Lotte Bailyn
Part III Work and Non-Work, Boundaries and Cultures	199	(84)
Living Lives of Change: Examining Facets of Women Managers' Career Stories	202	(26)
Judi Marshall
Exploring Boundaryless Careers in the French Context	228	(28)
Loic Cadin
Anne-Francois Bailly-Bender
Veronique de Saint-Giniez
Career, Community, and Social Architecture: An Exploration of Concepts	256	(17)
Rob Goffee
Gareth Jones
Continuing the Conversation about Career Theory and Practice	273	(10)
Michael B. Arthur
Maury A. Peiperl
Name Index	283	(4)
Subject Index	287