DEP 4464 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Dementia, Asian Americans, Job Performance
17 Aug 2018
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If work is important for providing meaning for people, who do they choose an occupation: developing self, union with others, expressing self, serving others. Explains how corporate executives with a better alignment between their personal intentions and their firm"s mission care more about their employees" happiness, job satisfaction, and emotional well-being. 6 personality types that represent different combinations have been identified: Job satisfaction: social cognitive career theory (scct) proposes career choice is a result of the application of bandura"s social cognitive theory, especially the concept of self-efficacy. People have expectations about what they want to become and when they hope to get there. These expectations change as the result of: realizing that one"s interest have changed/dream was not a good fit, due to age/race/sexual discrimination, lack of opportunity, and obsolescence of skills. Research shows young adults modify their expectations at least once, usually in the basis of new information: especially about their academic ability.
