Making Career Stories: Navigating Work and a Sense of Security

ISBN-13: 9783319855875 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str.

Mark Scillio

Opis

This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life. Mark Scillio explores the idea of security in the current turbulent employment climate, investigating employment experiences in developed, wealthy countries like Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom-where careers have become fragmented, complex, and uncertain. Using Anthony Giddens' notion of ontological security, Scillio develops a concept of career security that goes beyond economic and financial concerns and encompasses the personal and social meaning of work. The ramifications of succeeding (or failing) to forge a good career narrative are explored through a series of detailed case studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Situating the Study 

2. Conceptualizing Career Security

Part I. Being in Organizations

3. Entangled Work Motivations

4. How Routines Shape Career Stories 

5. Organizations as Places of Learning and Self-Development 

6. Narrative Crises 

Part II. Going it Alone 

7. Developing an Entrepreneurial Story 

8. Creating your own Structures: Implications for the Self 

9. Personalizing Social Problems 

10. The Audience as a Social Context and Form of Grounding

Part III. In-Between Places

11. Possible Selves and Career Stories 

12. Structure and Coherence in Career Stories 

13. Conclusion: Career Security and Keeping a Good Story Going

O autorze

Mark Scillio has worked as a university lecturer, adult educator, policy advisor, and social researcher. He currently teaches sociology at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.