Career Development

• Definition of career development? traditional

  Helps employees advance within the organization
• Are individuals responsible for managing their career?

  Yes
• Now, what do organization focus on career development?

  Matching career needs of employees to the requirements of the organization
• Even if companies still invest in employees, what don't they offer?

  Career security and inability to meet the needs of a diverse workforce
• What is career?


  Pattern of work-related experience that span the course of one's life
• What does career reflect?

  Any work, paid or unpaid
• What is the broad definition of career?

  Helpful in work environment that have diverse needs
• What is organizational career planning?

  Develop career ladders, tracks careers, and provide opportunities for development
• What is individual career development?

  Helps employees identify their goals and steps to achieve them
• What is career development?

  Focuses on the long-term career effeciveness and success of employees
• What is employee training and development?

  Focuses on performance in immediate / intermediate time frames
• What are the benefits of career development?

  Ensures needed talent is available

  Improves the organization's ability to attract and retain talented employees

  Ensures that minorities and women get opportunities for growth and development

  Reduces employee frustation

  Enhances cultural diversity

  Promotes organizational goodwill
• How is external careeer success measured?

  Progression up in the hierarchy

  Type of occupation

  Long-term commitment

  Income
• How is internal career success measured?

  Meaningfulness of one's work and achievement of personal goals
• What are effective coaches?

  Provides guidance through direction, advice, criticism, and suggestion in an attempt to aid employer's growth
• What are mentors?

  Senior-level employees provide support system to their juniors by offering insights on how the organization operates helping to expand their professional network, assisting in setting career development goals, and providing feedback when necessary
• What are the disadvantages of coaching / mentoring?

  tendency to perpetuate current styles and practices

  reliance on coach's ability to be a good teacher
• What are the considerations for organizations?

  Coaching between employees that don't have reporting relationship

  Ways to effectively implement cross-gender monitoring
• What are the traditional career stages

  Exploration

  Establishment

  Mid career

  Late career

  Decline
• What is plateau in mid career

  stay competent but not ambitious
• What do elder state people experience if they decline in their late career

  job insecurity
• What are good career choicie outcomes provide?

  Positive self-concept and the to do work that we value
• What are the models that can help in matching skills to career?

  holland vocational preferences

  schein anchors

  myers briggs typologies
• What is Holland vocational preferences major components?

  people have varying occupational preferences

  if you think work is important, you will be a more productive employee

  you will have more in common with people who have similar interests
• What are the six vocational themes that the vocational preferences identify?

  realistic

  investigative

  artistic

  social

  enterprising

  conventional
• What is schein anchors

  personal value clusters determine what is important to individuals
• WHat are the personal value clusters

  technical - functional competence

  managerial competence

  security-stability

  creativity

  autonomy-independence
• What are the four personality dimensions of myers briggs typologies?

  extraversion - introversion

  sensing - intuitive

  thinking - feeling

  judging - perceiving
• What is frank persons trait and factor theory?

  consists of 2 main characterisitics which are traits (qualities of people seeking careers) and factors (possible jobs and occupations)
• What is bandura's social cognitive theory?

  places greater weight on past experiences that one may find to motivate themselves
• what is super's developmental self - concept theory?

  discovered maturity and experience that individuals change their concept of self and goals in which the human lifespan can be grouped within certain age groups
• What is krumboltz soial learning

  Focused on inherited personal qualities, life circumstances, learning through and skills gained through work experience
• What is Ann roe needs theory?

  assesses the structure of needs and values that one has based on experiences early in life and childhood in which it also accounts for environmental and genetic factors
• WHat are the 8 different significant occupation categories of ann roe's needs theory

  science

  technology

  arts and entertainment

  outdoor

  service

  business

  managerial

  general cultural occupations
• What are the 6 levels included in ann roe needs theory

  unskilled to professional / managerial
• What is roe's personality theory

  experience focused on the interactions that one has with their parents during childhood and within the eight occupations they are 5 person oriented and non-person oriented which are more independent
• What is linda guttfredson - circumscription and compromise

  focused on four main stages of growth of children which are divided into age and developmental orientations
• WHat does linda guttfredson circumscription and compromise includE?

  3 to 5, 6 to 8, 9 to 13, 14 and above in which younger choose gender oriented career while older choose career that are more invovled in their community values and personal identity
• What is tiedeman and miller decision ,making model

  heavliy based on erikson's 8 psychosocial stages and consists of 2 main stages which are anticipation or preoccupation and implementtion or adjustment
• what do the first stage preoccupation and anticipation include

  exploration

  crystalization

  choice

  clarification