MGM400H5 Chapter Notes -Career Management, Job Satisfaction, Flat Organization
Document Summary
Important themes in careers change hobs and occupation. Increasing volatile labor markets means that many people are more likely to need to. In doing so they will need to be durable, innovative, and willing to do what they can take control of their own careers. There are different ways of evaluating career success (ex. Job satisfaction, earnings) and that social contacts are important in gaining access to opportunities. Once common defn of career is an occupation or line of work. Careers include any sequence of work-related experiences, not just conventional or orderly ones. Careers lie at the intersection of individual lives and social structures. Therefore many different academic disciplines (including psych) are relevant to careers. Much of the careers research and practice sicne about 1990 has placed great emphasis on the ways in which labor markets are said to have changed, and the implications of these changes for careers.
