Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I CURRENT APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- PART II NEW IDEAS FOR THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- Introduction to Part II
- 11 People as sculptors versus sculpture: the roles of personality and personal control in organizations
- 12 Work, stress, and careers: a preventive approach to maintaining organizational health
- 13 Re-visioning career concepts: a feminist invitation
- 14 Reciprocity at work: the separate, yet inseparable possibilities for individual and organizational development
- 15 Career improvisation in self-designing organizations
- 16 Organization career systems and employee misperceptions
- 17 Blue-collar careers: meaning and choice in a world of constraints
- 18 A political perspective on careers: interests, networks, and environments
- 19 Rites of passage in work careers
- 20 Pin stripes, power ties, and personal relationships: the economics of career strategy
- 21 Rhetoric in bureaucratic careers: managing the meaning of management success
- 22 The internal and external career: a theoretical and cross-cultural perspective
- PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER THEORY
- Name index
- Subject index
Introduction to Part II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- PART I CURRENT APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- PART II NEW IDEAS FOR THE STUDY OF CAREERS
- Introduction to Part II
- 11 People as sculptors versus sculpture: the roles of personality and personal control in organizations
- 12 Work, stress, and careers: a preventive approach to maintaining organizational health
- 13 Re-visioning career concepts: a feminist invitation
- 14 Reciprocity at work: the separate, yet inseparable possibilities for individual and organizational development
- 15 Career improvisation in self-designing organizations
- 16 Organization career systems and employee misperceptions
- 17 Blue-collar careers: meaning and choice in a world of constraints
- 18 A political perspective on careers: interests, networks, and environments
- 19 Rites of passage in work careers
- 20 Pin stripes, power ties, and personal relationships: the economics of career strategy
- 21 Rhetoric in bureaucratic careers: managing the meaning of management success
- 22 The internal and external career: a theoretical and cross-cultural perspective
- PART III FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAREER THEORY
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
In Part II we look at careers through a different lens. Whereas in Part I we considered different streams in the career literature, in Part II we examine career theory through the multiple lenses provided by social science disciplines. As we said in the Preface, the concept of Part II was to ask scholars not necessarily associated with the study of careers to look at the domain of their particular fields and to “think careers” while they did so. We asked them to pull out concepts from their area that they thought could be useful in understanding how people's work behaviors and attitudes change over time as a career unfolds.
While it is clear to us why each of the following chapters is important, we have been unable to come up with any obvious sequence in which to present them. If Part I of this handbook showed us the present landscape of career theory, Part II is the garden store of new materials with which the landscape might be changed. And we hope readers will agree the store is full and the materials tempting. To preview the selections, there are ideas drawn principally from psychology (Bell and Staw, Latack, and Marshall, Chapters 11–13, respectively), organizational behavior (Arthur and Kram, Derr and Laurent, Chapters 14 and 22), social psychology (Weick and Berlinger, Chapter 15), sociology (Rosenbaum, Thomas, Chapters 16 and 17), political science (Pfeffer, Chapter 18), anthropology (Trice and Morand, Chapter 19), economics (Barney and Lawrence, Chapter 20), and rhetoric (Gowler and Legge, Chapter 21).
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- Handbook of Career Theory , pp. 227 - 231Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989