Managing Careers and Employability 1st Edition

1 IntroductionLearning objectivesChapter outlineIntroductionCareer perspectives: Individual versus organizationalWhat is the meaning of career?Why employability?Balancing individual and organizational needsLabour marketsThe changing nature of careersOrganizational careers: The rumours of their death have been prematureNew psychological contracts: The evolution of employment relationshipsChanging the rules of the gameChanges in the occupational sector from a historical perspectiveCareer systems and their multi constituencies: Who brings what, who does whatTechnology impactCareer ecosystemsSuccessful career systemsCareer management as part of the HR matrixFrom strategic HRM to strategic career systemsSummaryKey termsDiscussion questionsExercises2 Individual careersLearning objectivesChapter outlineIntroduction: Career – individual perspectiveCareer choiceInternal, external, and organizational careersIndividual models of career choiceIndividual models of career stage and developmentPersonality and careerSummaryKey termsDiscussion questions3 Individual careers and career modelsLearning objectivesChapter outlineModels of individual career development and the protean careerIndividuals and career counsellingStudying individual careersCareer successThe desert generation phenomenonBoundaryless, intelligent, kaleidoscope, and post-corporate careers and career construction theoryHow to reinvent and resurrect one’s own careerSummaryKey termsDiscussion questions4 Employability, sustainability, and entrepreneurshipLearning objectivesChapter outlineIntroductionEmployabilityEmployability – when and for whom?Graduates’ employabilityOrganizational perspective of employabilityCareer sustainabilityEntrepreneurship as a promising, viable career pathPhasing out – the ending of working lifeSummaryKey termsDiscussion questions5 The dynamic nature of career managementLearning objectivesChapter outlineTransitionsCareer dynamismVUCA – perpetual motionThe Peter Principle and organizational career systemsCareer communitiesThe dark side of careersCareer networkingCareers as metaphorsChanges in specific occupations and the emergence of new vocations and business sectorsChange versus stability: implications for career systemsSummaryKey termsDiscussion questionsExercises6 Organizational career systems – the Career Active System Triad (CAST)Learning objectivesChapter outlineFrom an individual focus to an organizational perspectiveThe career active system triad (CAST)Organizational career systemsOrganizational frames and career dynamismStrategic HRM, strategic career systemsFlexibility and competitive advantageFlexibility as a strategic responseThe blurring of boundariesOutsourcingWork stress and control over timeAlternative work arrangementsOrganizational developments and career systemsRecruitment, selection and, career systems‘New deals’EmpowermentEvaluating career systemsSummaryKey termsDiscussion questionsExerciseAppendix 6.17 Organizational career management practicesLearning objectivesChapter outlineIntroduction: Career practicesThe use of career practices: Empirical evidenceCPM practices: ClustersCareer practices for whom?Career practices: Detailed discussionFrom a collection to a collective: Integrating practices into a systemImplications for organizationsSummaryKey termsDiscussion questionsExercise8 Global career managementLearning objectivesChapter outlineIntroductionThe internationalization of careers: Individual perspectiveIndividual characteristics of global managersGlobal psychological contracts?Global employabilityThe push/pull modelDifferent national managerial culturesGlobal career systems: The organizational perspectiveHRM operating across borders: ‘Glocalized’ careersExpatriation and repatriation career strategiesRepatriation and reverse culture shockSummaryKey termsDiscussion questions9 Equality, diversity, and inclusion: Careers perspectiveLearning objectivesChapter outlineWhat is diversity?What is inclusion?What is discrimination?What is management of diversity?Organizational approaches to tackling discrimination and improving inclusionProcedural justice and distributive justiceSpecific groups and relevant issuesBelonging to a special type of familyOrganizational policies and their importance in managing diversitySummaryKey termsDiscussion questionsExercise10 Conclusion: The future of careersLearning objectivesChapter outlineEpilogueBack to basicsFuture trendsTechnology, e-business careers, and virtual careersLife or working career?Strategic career or career strategy?The career ecosystems theory as an over-arching perspectiveLessons and challengesDiscussion questions