Career Barriers: How People Experience, Overcome, and Avoid Failure

ISBN-13: 9780805825800 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str.

Manuel London; Manuel London

Opis

This volume's goal is to help readers understand how people react to career barriers and how people develop constructive ways of coping with them. Drawing on original cases and data from interviews with people who faced different types of career barriers, the author describes how people react to, and make sense of, unfortunate events in their lives - and career barriers when they occur. He considers how and why some people cope constructively while others don't, and explores how resilience and support from others help get us through tough times and emerge with a sense of renewal and career growth. He suggests how we can manage career barriers and prepare for - or even prevent - career barriers through foresight, planning and education. These methods also suggest what managers and organizations should do to help their employees who are or may soon be facing career barriers.

Recenzje

"Career Barriers contains important insights that should guide both researchers and practitioners in their attempts to understand and manage the many dilemmas of corporate life that lie ahead in the twenty-first century."
—Academy of Management Review

"This book covers the field of career barriers in a comprehensive fashion....I find the book's structure around the career motivation theme helpful and enlightening."
—Personnel Psychology

Spis treści

Contents: Part I: What is a Career Barrier?Examples and Types of Barrier? Part II: How People React to Career Barriers.The Pain of Failure. Coping Strategies. Career Motivation: Resilience, Insight, and Identity. Resilience and Hardiness: The Basis for Inner Strength. Part III: Ways to Help People Overcome Career Barriers.Sources of Support. Methods for Constructive Responses. Part IV: Ways to Avoid Career Barriers.Toward Multiple Careers and Continuous Learning. Appendices: Additional Cases. Catalogue of Cases. Case Description and Rating Forms. Relationship Between Appraisal, Coping, and Career Motivation.

O autorze

Manuel London