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Howard (1986 study) |
Related college experienceto job success in managementnGrades werepredictors of intellectual ability and manager’s involvement with motivation todo good work Humanities/socialscience majors had best overall performance as managers – good interpersonalskills – MBAs had good administrative skills Extracurricular activityincreased interpersonal and leadership skills |
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Vocational types |
Holland’s six personality types related to vocational interest Investigative Social:Helping,Informing, Teaching, Inspiring, Counseling, and Serving Realistic: frank, practical, focused,mechanical, determined, or rugged Artistic Conventional Enterprising |
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Super’s Theory |
Life-course stages during adulthood based on one’s self-concept and adaption (feedback) “Vocational Maturity”continuum Better fit b/t work and personality |
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Assumptions of Supers Theory |
People differ in their abilities, personalities, needs, values, interests, traits, and self-concepts. People are qualified – based on these abilities etc for various possible occupations. Each occupation requires a characteristic pattern of abilities and other traits Vocational preferences and other competencies change with time (Dependent on feedback) The career pattern is determined by parental SES, ability, education, personality and by the opportunities they are exposed to |
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Assumptions cont. |
Success in coping at any stage depends on readiness to cope with the demands Career maturity is a combination of biological, psychological, and sociological characteristics Work and life satisfaction depend on appropriate outlets for abilities, needs,values, interests, personality traits, and self-concepts. |
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Life-Span stages of career development 5 stages |
Growth - fantasy, interests, capacities Exploration - crystallizing, specifying,implementing Establishment - stabilizing, consolidating,advancing Maintenance - holding, updating, innovating Disengagement - decelerating, retirement planning, retirement living |
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Based on Work of Parsons one can conclude that: |
To select an appropriate career you must have: 1.An accurate knowledge of yourself. 2.Thorough knowledge of job specifications, and 3.The ability to make a proper match between the two. (Exploring, growth) |
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Levinson theory |
Following getting married and starting a family the other aspects deal with career -Choosing an occupation based on a dream -Forming “a Dream” forming self concept -Finding a mentor (teacher, counselor, sponsor) Downfall based on small n adult male white collar workers |
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career Success |
Howard and Bray study (much of what I’ve shown is from this AT&T study) Found that early predictors are intellectual ability, interpersonal skills, motivation for advancement Among the most successful they maintained a high level of desire to get ahead compared to less successful (as measured by promotion – keep in mind) |
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Psychological hormesis. |
Doing things that we feel uncomfortable doing (but things that are not TOO uncomfortable). |
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Retirement Phases |
Preretirement is getting ournest egg together (remote and near phases) After retirement there is ahoneymoon where life is great Retirement routine Disenchantment – someexperience this – not what is cracked up to be Termination – some do andsome don’t even in the absence of disenchantment – they go back to work |
