Product Description: Companies are becoming more global and international, and commerce and information flow seamlessly across national borders. In addition, modernization, rapid technological change, an increasingly (shared) global culture, and shifting socio-demographic values have created conditions in which career stability is more threatened, while the importance of managing the career well is paramount...read more

Product Description: Wisdom for Developing Extraordinary Leaders "This book contains a rich collection of wisdom, experience, and insight for addressing the gaps in learning and development that the traditional models for training, talent development, and succession planning fail to address...read more

Product Description: Careers In and Out of Organizations provides an overview of the changing context of careers and describes the role of interpersonal relationships as influences on development of a person's identity and learning. The author examines the nature of the new career contract and the different approaches that have been taken to studying career decision making...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This unique book features experiential exercises on a variety of different business topics, such as international applications, quality, diversity, and continuous improvement. It uses questionnaires, role plays, simulations, games and readings to reinforce key concepts. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The career--a series of upward moves with steadily increasing income, power, status, and security--has become a thing of the past. Through a collection of fifteen articles, The Career Is Dead: Long Live the Career shows you how to redefine your career as a series of rewarding lifelong work and learning experiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume traces the origins of the field of career development and explores the ways careers unfold in organizations, with reference to differences of gender and race. It argues that the old psychological contract (based on long service and corporate loyalty) has changed.

Product Description: This cross-disciplinary text is designed to appeal to a diversity of social science scholars. The central focus is on new ways of viewing the career, or how working lives unfold over time. Fresh views from psychology, social psychology, sociology, anthropology, organization theory, economics, and political science are among those represented in the twenty-five chapter anthology...read more

Product Description: The first volume in the Frontiers of Industrial and Organizational Psychology Series sponsored by the American Psychological Association. Details methods of updating career development techniques for individuals and of using these techniques to improve career management programs within corporations and other organizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)