Top
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
Free Shipping On Orders Over $35!
Get Rewarded for Ordering Your Textbooks! Enroll Now
Customer Reviews Read Reviews
Write a Review
What is included with this book?
| The Career Management Process: Theory and Application | |
| Introduction to the Study of Careers | |
| The Changing Landscape of Work | |
| Definition of Career Concepts | |
| What is a Career? | |
| Career Management | |
| Career Development | |
| The Need to Understand Career Management | |
| The Individual Perspective | |
| The Organizational Perspective | |
| Summary of the Contemporary Workplace | |
| Case: Richard the Information Systems Executive | |
| Career Contexts and Stages | |
| The Traditional Perspectives on Careers | |
| Contemporary Perspectives on Careers: The Boundaryless and Protean Themes | |
| Social Influences on Careers | |
| The Differing Meanings of Career Success | |
| The Developmental or Stage-Based Perspective on Careers | |
| Erikson's Approach to Life Development | |
| Levinson's Approach to Adult Life Development | |
| Stages of Career Development | |
| Case: Kevin at the Crossroads | |
| A Model of Career Management | |
| An Overview of the Career Management Model | |
| Theory and Research on the Career Management Process | |
| Career Management as on Ongoing Process | |
| Indicators of Effective Career Management | |
| Case: Michele Terry, the Aspiring Banking Executive | |
| Applications of a Career Management Model: A Guide to Career Exploration | |
| Types of Career Exploration | |
| Self-Exploration | |
| Consideration of Needs Outside of Work | |
| Techniques for Self-Exploration | |
| Theme Identification | |
| Environmental Exploration | |
| Techniques for Effective Work Exploration | |
| Understanding One's Preferred Work Environment | |
| Overcoming Obstacles to Career Exploration: A Set of Guidelines | |
| Self and Environmental Exploration: A Reciprocal Relationship | |
| Case: Joe Francis the Sales Executive | |
| Appendix for Chapter 4: Learning Exercises #1 through #4 | |
| Applications of the Career Management Model: Goals, Strategies, and Appraisal | |
| Career Goal Setting | |
| Components of Career Goals | |
| Development of Long-Term and Short-Term Conceptual Goals | |
| Development of Long-Term and Short-Term Operational Goals | |
| Are Long-Term Career Goals Necessary? | |
| Overcoming Obstacles to Goal Setting: A Set of Guidelines | |
| Inability to Set Career Goals: Career Indecision | |
| Implications of Goal Setting for Organizations and their Employees | |
| Developing Career Strategies | |
| Types of Career Strategies | |
| Guidelines for the Development of Career Strategies | |
| Career Appraisal | |
| Types and Sources of Information Derived from Career Appraisal | |
| Guidelines for Effective Career Appraisal | |
| Career Management: A Blend of Formal and Informal Activities | |
| Case: Kimberly the Graduating College Student | |
| Appendix for Chapter 5: Learning Exercises #5 and #6 | |
| The Stages of Career Development | |
| Occupational and Organizational Choice | |
| Occupational Choice | |
| Theories of Occupational Choice | |
| Guidelines for Effective Occupational Decision Making | |
| Organizational Choice-The Process of Entering an Organization | |
| Theories of Organizational Choice | |
| Organizational Choice and Entry in Later Adulthood | |
| Organizational Actions During the Entry Process | |
| Assessment and Selection | |
| Individual Actions During the Entry Process | |
| Case: Natalie the Retail Manager (Part A) | |
| Appendix for Chapter 6: Learning Exercises #7 and #8 | |
| The Early Career Stage: Establishment and Achievement | |
| The Establishment Phase | |
| Organizational Actions During Establishment | |
| Individual Actions During Establishment | |
| The Achievement Period | |
| Organizational Actions During Achievement | |
| Individual Actions During Achievement | |
| The Early Career: A Question of Timing | |
| Case #1: Natalie the Retail Manager (Part B) | |
| Case #2: Claudia the Star Performer | |
| The Middle and Late Career Stages: Career Challenges for Seasoned Employees | |
| The Middle Career Years | |
| Organizational Actions During Midcareer | |
| The Late Career | |
| Remaining Productive | |
| Preparation for Retirement | |
| Organizational Actions During Late Career | |
| Individual Actions During Later Career | |
| Case: George the Banker | |
| Contemporary Issues in Career Management | |
| Job Stress and Careers | |
| Job Stress: An Overview | |
| Sources and Consequences of Stress | |
| Coping, Social Support, and Stress | |
| Organizational Actions | |
| Case: Sally the Stressed Saleswoman | |
| The Intersection of Work and Family Roles: Implications for Career Management | |
| Work-Family Conflict: When Work and Family are "Enemies" | |
| Work-Family Enrichment: When Work and Family are "Allies" | |
| The Two-Career Family | |
| Sources of Stress in the Two-Career Relationship | |
| Quality of Life In Two-Career Families | |
| Organizational Responses to Work-Family Issues | |
| Career Management and Quality of Life | |
| Case: The Prized Promotion | |
| Managing Diversity | |
| Fairness in Organizations | |
| A Model of Organizational Fairness | |
| Is Diversity Inherently Valuable? | |
| Organizational Actions | |
| Characteristics of the Multicultural Organization | |
| Organizational Approaches to the Challenges of Diversity | |
| Organizational Programs and Policies | |
| Managing Diversity: Opportunities and Competence | |
| Individual Actions | |
| Case: Dave the Aspiring Executive (Part A) | |
| Entrepreneurial Careers | |
| Entrepreneurship: An Overview | |
| Choosing an Entrepreneurial Career | |
| Other Factors that Encourage Entrepreneurial Careers | |
| Entrepreneurial Bridge Careers | |
| Support for the Entrepreneurial Career | |
| Characteristics and Experiences of Female and Minority Entrepreneurs | |
| Selecting and Managing the Entrepreneurial Career | |
| Case: Dave the Aspiring Executive (Part B) | |
| Career Management in Work Organizations | |
| The Role of Strategic Human Resource Management Systems in Career Management | |
| Integration of Career Management within Strategic HRM Systems | |
| Strategic Human Resource Processes | |
| Case: The Corporate Policy Change | |
| Closing Thoughts on Career Management | |
| Looking to the Future | |
| Effective Career Management | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.
Need Help? Copyright © 1999-2024