Chapter 12: Work, Leisure, and Retirement Flashcards
What is Holland’s Theory?
People choose occupations to optimize the fit between individual traits–investigative, social, realistic, artistic, conventional, and enterprising–and occupational interests
What are the theories concerning occupational and career development?
- Career construction Theory
- Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)
- Super’s theory
- Comprehensive: occupations evolve in response to changes in self-concept/efficiency that can be influenced by external factors
What is the career construction theory?
People build careers by actions influenced by personal characteristics and social context
- Holland’s theory: choose occupations and careers you like
What is the social cognitive career theory?
carer choice is the result of Bandura’s social cognitive theory–especially self-efficacy (personal interests)
- simplest: self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interest and choice goals
- complex: adds supports and barriers
- selection includes personal beliefs, ethnic, gender, and economic factors
What is Super’s theory?
Promotion (development) depends on choosing the right occupations and expectations, coworker support, priorities, and job satisfaction
- occupational development based on self-concept: implementation, establishment, maintenance, deceleration & retirement.
- Vocational maturity: correlation of behavior and expectation
- five developmental tasks: crystallization, specification, implementation (short-term tries), stabilization (selection specific occupation), consolidation (advance career ladder)
What are the factors affecting occupational expectations?
- first: school, parents, adults, peers, media
- later: own experiences:
- modify expectations by interests, education, goals, and discrimination
- vary based on generation (staying with same job/changing jobs)
- internships prevent reality shock when transferring from school to work
How can people benefit from mentors?
- avoid trouble and learn unwritten rules
- recognition for good work and advice
- women and minorities are particularly benefited and have higher career expectancies
