Product Description
*Now published by SAGE*
Career Management, Fourth Edition blends theory, practical recommendations, and case studies to help students develop the necessary skills to manage their own careers or to act as a human resource manager assisting others as they develop their careers. Offering a useful combination of both individual and organizational actions relevant in career management, the authors introduce students to basic concepts underlying theory and then illustrate their practical applications, either with regard to an individual’s career or within firms.
Now in a two–color design, the Fourth Edition retains the authors’ well-established career management model, providing a helpful framework for establishing career goals and for making appropriate career choices. This thoroughly revised edition provides new ways of conceptualizing careers along with an understanding of modern trends in the business world and the broader environment that influence career decision making.
Key Features
• *NEW* Chapter-ending cases: Each chapter now ends with a topical “real-life” case that examines either individual or organizational career management. These scenarios highlight core chapter material and are accompanied by critical thinking questions, making them useful for guiding classroom discussion.
• Practical pedagogy reinforces the theories and research presented: Updated and streamlined learning exercises allow individuals to practice specific competencies involving career exploration, goal setting, strategy development, and the identification of a preferred work environment. Applied examples throughout the text illustrate key ideas, bringing them to life.
• Significant new material brings the text up to date: This edition addresses international careers, social capital, mentoring, and entrepreneurship; updated information on different forms of self-assessment (for learning about one’s values, interests, talents, personality, and lifestyle preferences); and a new chapter on Career Contexts and Stages.
Ancillaries
A companion Web site at www.sagepub.com/greenhaus4e includes:
• Password-protected instructor resources, including PowerPoint slides, test questions, and teaching guides for the chapters.
• Open-access student study materials, online versions of in-text exercises, links to relevant Web sites, and full-text SAGE journal articles that accompany the chapter material.
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An excellent text on Career Management. It is well referenced and an extensive number of case and experiential studies. The text focuses on four key areas in career management : (a) career management as a process; (b) a developmental approach to career management; (c) additional demands on career management and (d) career management for the individual can be assisted by the organisation. This book is ideal for everyone who needs to deal with careers. The first part addresses the concerns of the individual who wants to learn about career management as a process as well as trainers/facilitators, etc who are helping others to learn about the career management process. The send part is ideally suited to coaches and counselors who may be guiding individuals with their careers. The third part is vital for anyone you wants to understand the consequences of the ‘turbulence’ impacting careers and strategies to adopt. This section addresses concerns like work-life balance, work stress, lifestyle issues, entrepreneurial careers, etc. The fourth part is ideal for human resources practitioners and consultants who assist organisations in the planning, development and management of careers of their employees. Learning exercises help users of the text practice career management skills, too. An invaluable investment not just for corporate and public library but those actively engaged in the career management industry. It is more than a university study text – it is vital resource handbook on careers.
Rating: 5 / 5
While I admired the attempt to integrate scholarship from the
career-development and organizational-entry realms, I found the
chapter on organizational entry shockingly outdated, with most
sources used from the 70s and 80s. At a time when the Internet
has turned the recruiting world upside down, there are only 2 scant
mentions of the Internet in this chapter. Way too much emphasis on
Wanous’s Realistic Job Previews, a concept on which tons of
research has been done, but few organizations actually use.
There also seems to be a major research gap on resumes and
cover letters, given that this chapter skips right from
“Identification of Prospective Employers” to the Job
Interview — as though all a job-seeker has to do to
get an interview is identify a prospective employer!
Rating: 1 / 5