Career sources

Question 1

Arnold 1997

Answer 1

A career is a sequence of employment related positions

Question 2

Wilensky 1960

Answer 2

Traditional careers are thought of a succession of jobs arranged in a hierarchy

Question 3

What wrong with Hughes 1937 definition of careers

Answer 3

Outdated, and focus on just men having careers

Question 4

“Cradle to grave” philosophy

Answer 4

Sparrow & Hiltrop 1994

Question 5

Difference between a career and a job is that a job leads to nowhere

Answer 5

Leach & Chakiris 1988

Question 6

Kanter 1989

Answer 6

3 key variations in career forms; bureaucratic, professional and entrepreneurial

Question 7

Parker 1999

Answer 7

Reflects the progression to alternative forms of recognition and achievement

Question 8

Movements within an organisation are lateral rather than a linear progression

Answer 8

Wilton 2013

Question 9

The ‘Shamrock Approach’ - 3 main workforces

Answer 9

Charles Handy

Question 10

Schein 1996

Answer 10

Shift in careers - “a subjective sense of where one is going in life”

Question 11

Boudaryless careers

Answer 11

Arnold & Rousseau 1996

Question 12

Protean careers - self innovation and frequent changes

Answer 12

Hall 1996