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Career Development |
A process that encompasses much of the life span-one that begins in childhood, continues into adulthood, and culminates with the transition into, and adjustment to, retirement. |
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Career Choice |
the process of selecting and entering a particular career path |
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Career Counseling |
Services offered to prevent problems with work behavior, regardless of the prestige or level of education associated with a given work option. |
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Three Large Categories of Career Counseling |
1. Help in making and implementing career-related decisions 2. Help in adjusting to work and managing one's career 3. Help in negotiating career transitions and work-life balance. |
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Coaching |
Focuses on assisting workers, particularly mangers and executives, to improve their work performance or to promote their career progress within a given work organization. |
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Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA) |
Considered a model of person-environment vocational fit. Its primary focus is the process of adjustment to work environments, but can also be used to help people make vocational choices |
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TWA Predictive Model |
focuses on the variables that explain whether individuals are satisfied with their work environments and whether they are satisfactory to their work environments, which in turn predicts individuals' tenure in their work environments |
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TWA Process Model |
Focuses on how the fit between individuals and their environments is attained and maintained |
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6 Core Values of TWA |
1. Achievement (using one's abilities and having a feeling of accomplishment. 2. Comfort (feeling comfortable and not feeling stressed) 3. Status (achieving recognition and being in a dominant position) 4. Alturism (being of service to others and being in harmony with others) 5. Safety (Having a stable, ordered, and predictable work environment) 6. Autonomy (being independent and having a sense of control. |
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Disequilibrium |
when the individual is dissatisfied, unsatisfactory, or both with his/her work environment. (Disequilibrium can occur for he environments as well. |
