MGMT 304Career Management

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MGMT 304-Career Management

• Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
  Keep interested in your own career, however
  humble. It is a real possession in the changing
  fortunes of time.
• Desiderata

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Career Development why is increasingly central
to Management?

• Career is Motivation
• Career management needs integrating with other
  practices such as organizational culture,
  organizational change and organizational
  communication
• New Career Developments flatter organizational
  structures, boundaryless career behaviour,
  changing psychological contracts
• How to retain women and minorities

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Career development why is it important to
employees?

• Choosing a suitable career
• Developing career competencies
• Continuing to make good career choices e.g
  specialized vs generalist
• Ongoing learning and personal development
• Balancing work/life

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What is a career?

• Frequently used term
• A modern concept
• Carriere a noun, an attribution and a verb
• Defined by occupation or organization or self ?
• Subjective term - what do we value?

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What is a career (some traditional themes)

• Advancement
• Profession/ professional status
• Stability
• Career is an evolving sequence of a person's
  work experience over time.
• the pattern of work-related experiences that
  span the course of a persons life

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Career is movement

• There are choice points where a person must
  decide where to head. But the movement of life is
  always forward, linked to the biological clock
  and cultural norms. One can drift, stall or
  stagnate, but there is basically no stopping and
  not turning back (Schein, 1978 22).

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What is a career, some more recent themes

• Sequence of paid and non-paid work experience.
• Sequence of work aspirations, needs, values
• Objective career
• Subjective career

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Objective and subjective career perspective

• Objective career points towards institutional
  forms of participation characteristic of some
  social world (extrinsically/collectively defined)
  - status, pay, titles
• Subjective career points towards the individual's
  experience of his or her career unfolding.
  Success is defined intrinsically and
  psychologically - personal growth, balance,
  meaning, challenge, satisfaction

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Psychological and sociological career perspectives

• Sociological career emphasises the role of the
  environment (stages in organizations nature and
  status of occupations influence of gender or
  social class on career choice)
• Psychological career how do constellations of
  personal attributes shape career path

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What is a career? (some metaphors)

• A journey (common metaphor)
• An artist making a quilt (Sagra, 1989)
• Career ladders as jungle gyms (Gunz, 1990)
• Tournament (Rosenbaum, 1989)
• Anchor (Schein, 1978)
• Roving troubadours (Arthur, Inkson and Pringle,
  1999)
• Protean careers (Hall, 1997)

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Career a diverse concept

• Professional careers, entrepreneurial careers,
  blue collar careers
• Linear, expert, spiral, transitory and broken
  careers
• Career stages, career types

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Studying career

• Highlights a series of relationships between
  individual and workplace between family and
  workplace between societal norms and workplace
  between economic trends and workplace
• We focus on your career and your role as manager
  in managing careers.

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An overview

• Importance of career knowledge and development
• Occupational choice goal setting
• Work/Life Balance
• Boundaryless career environment
• Career Management

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Assignment 1 What do you want to do and be when
you grow up?

• Making use of
• Career exploration tools (see Bolles evaluation
  of career tests www.jobhuntersbible.com,
  analysing your values, interests, abilities,
  talents, skills weaknesses etc.
• A minimum of four interviews with individuals who
  have the type of job you are aiming for
• 1 Book/ Biography on a person you find
  inspirational (e.g. Nelson Mandela, Armstrong,
  etc etc etc).
• One interview with an HR manager of the type of
  organization you want to work for or an
  alternative analysis of this organization e.g.
  culture, training programmes etc. You are
  allowed to collaborate on this part of the
  assignment
• Careful study of the text-book chapters on career
  exploration (Ch. 3), career goal setting (Ch. 4)
  and occupational choice (Ch. 6).
• Your Analysis of the job-market
• Put together a well-argued, well-supported (by
  research findings and the literature), well
  documented, career plan for the next five years.

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Assessment 2Essay 50

• Essay (2000 words maximum, double space, point
  12). Choose one of the following topics.
• Compare career and motivation theories and
  explain similarities and differences and the
  relevance of viewing career as motivation to
  organizational phenomena such as culture and
  change.
• A significant proportion of the workforce is
  striving for work/life balance. Yet individuals
  and organizations struggle with this issue why is
  this and what can be done to address this
  struggle?