From a view of the history of the field and a map of its elements to a set of essays about the future of careers and work, this volume provides the most complete reference available on the role of work careers in individual lives, institutions, and industries.

Table of Contents

• Foreword: Career Research—Some Personal Perspectives - Edgar H. Schein
• Preface
• 1. Introduction - Hugh Gunz and Maury Peiperl
• Part I: The Historical Origins and Current Structure of the Careers Field
• Introduction to Part I
• 2. Tracing the Historical Roots of Career Theory in Management and Organization Studies - Celia Moore, Hugh Gunz, and Douglas T. Hall
• 3. Taxonomy of Career Studies - Maury Peiperl and Hugh Gunz
• Part II: Main Currents in the Study of Career
• Section 1: Careers and the Individual
• 4. Personality and Career Success - Timothy A. Judge and John D. Kammeyer-Mueller
• 5. Occupational Choice - Mark L. Savickas
• 6. Career Counseling - Jennifer M. Kidd
• 7. The Subjective Career in the Knowledge Economy - Svetlana N. Khapova, Michael B. Arthur, and Celeste P. M. Wilderom
• 8. The Intersection of Work and Family Lives - Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and Sharon Foley
• 9. Late-Career and Retirement Issues - Daniel C. Feldman
• 10. Organizational Challenges at the Periphery: Career Issues for the Socially Marginalized - Pushkala Prasad, Caroline D’Abate, and Anshuman Prasad
• 11. Customized Careers - Monique Valcour, Lotte Bailyn, and Maria Alejandra Quijada
• Section 2: Careers in Context
• 12. Contextual Issues in the Study of Careers - Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Michael Meyer, and Johannes Steyrer
• 13. Mentoring and Developmental Networks in the New Career Context - Dawn E. Chandler and Kathy E. Kram
• 14. Networks and Identities: Reciprocal Influences on Career Processes and Outcomes - Herminia Ibarra and Prashant H. Deshpande
• 15. The Developmental Theories: A Critical Examination of Their Continuing Impact on Careers Research - Sherry E. Sullivan and Madeline Crocitto
• 16. Living to Work—Working to Live: Conceptualizations of Careers Among Contemporary Workers - David E. Guest and Jane Sturges
• 17. The Institutions of Outside Hiring - Peter Cappelli and Monika Hamori
• 18. Global Careers- Maury Peiperl and Karsten Jonsen
• Section 3: Careers and Institutions
• 19. Career Systems and Psychological Contracts - Holly S. Slay and M. Susan Taylor
• 20. Organizational Demography and Individual Careers: Structure, Norms, and Outcomes - Barbara S. Lawrence and Pamela S. Tolbert
• 21. Career Patterns and Organizational Performance - Monica C. Higgins and James R. Dillon
• 22. Careers and Institutions: The Centrality of Careers to Organizational Studies - Candace Jones and Mary B. Dunn
• 23. Careers Across Cultures - David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson
• 24. Boundaries in the Study of Career - Hugh Gunz, Maury Peiperl, and Daniel Tzabbar
• Part III: Synthesis
• 25. Designing Career Systems: Are We Ready for It? - Silvia Bagdadli
• 26. Considering the Darker Side of Careers: Toward a More Balanced Perspective - Yoav Vardi and Sharon H. Kim
• 27. Continuity, Emergence, and Opportunities for Convergence - Maria L. Kraimer and Scott E. Seibert
• 28. A Complexity Perspective on Intentional Change in Careers - Richard E. Boyatzis
• 29. The Catalytic 1970s: Lessons for the 2000s - C. Brooklyn Derr and Jon P. Briscoe
• 30. Career Studies: Personal ,Side Trips- - Philip H. Mirvis
• 31. Trends, Paradoxes, and Some Directions for Research in Career Studies - Wayne F. Cascio
• 32. The Meanings of Career - Audrey Collin
• 33. Destiny, Drama, and Deliberation: Careers in the Coevolution of Lives and Societies - Nigel Nicholson
• Afterword: Career Research—Some Issues and Dilemmas - Edgar H. Schein
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors