HDE 100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Job Satisfaction, Twin Study, Cognitive Flexibility
17 Nov 2016
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The importance of work in adulthood, gender differences: career and super"s theory of career development, career the patterns and sequences of occupations or related roles held by people across their working lives into retirement. Super"s 5 stages of career development: growth (ages 4-14, exploration (ages 15-24, establishment (ages 25-44, maintenance (ages 45-65, disengagement (ages 65+, we can cycle back through some stages at different points of our career. Ex: going back to school, switching jobs, retirement. Super said an individual develops their career in stages: career decisions are not isolated from other aspects of life, work is best perceived in terms of its importance to other roles. Percentage of men and women with full-time jobs a. More men work full-time than women in the us. The gap is narrowing because women are working outside the home more. 70% of men and 57% of women have full-time jobs.
