HC 9 Flashcards
A lifecycle perspective on learning in organizations
Definition of career
The pattern of work related experiences that span the course of a persons life
Consists of:
- objective events (e.g. jobs)
- subjective events (e.g. attitudes, values, expectations
- Influenced by: the individual, environment, organization
- focus away fromcareer thats stable longterm, predictable, organization driven sequences of vertical moves.
Definition career development
An ongoing process by which individuals progress through a series of stages, each of which is characterized by a relatively unique set of issues, themes, and tasks
Spectrum of career development activities
1) employee centered
1. 1) Self directed workbooks and tape cassettes
1. 2) Company run career planning workshops
1. 3) Corporate seminars on organizational career
2) Mutual focus: manager-employee planning
2. 1) Manager employee career discussions
2. 2.) Developmental assesment centers
2. 3) Corporate talent inventories
2. 4) Corporate succession planning
3) Organizational centered career management
Four stage model of career development
1) Occupational and organizational choice: preparation for work.
2) Early career: establishment and achievement
3) Midcareer
4) Late career
Four stage model of career development: stage 1
Occupational and organizational choice: preparation for work
- age: 0-25
- Major tasks: develop occupational self image, asses alternative occupation, develop occupational choice, pursue necessary education, obtain job offers from desired organizations, select appropriate job based on accurate information
Four stage model of career development: stage 2
Early career: establishment and achievement
- Age: 25-40
- Major tasks: Leam job. learn job, learn organizational rules and norms, fit into occupation/organization, increase competence, pursue “The Dream”
Four stage model of career development: stage 3
Midcareer
- age: 40-55
- Major tasks: reappraise early career and early adulthood, reaffirm or modify “the dream”, make choices appropriate for middle adult years, remain productive in work
Four stage model of career development: stage 4
Late career
- age: 55-retirement
- Major tasks: Remain productive in work, maintain selfesteem, prepare for effective retirement
4 “line based” views of career development. y = power&status, x=time
1 linear: stepwise linear improvement
2 steady state expert: stepwise until max power&status, after that stable
3 spiral: stepwise, but also steps down, but general direction is up
4 transitory: steps up and down, general direction is stable low.
Managerial practice of generations
Workforce consists of generations from different times, with different customs, needs, technologies, etc.
Generational theory (Joshi, Dencker, Franz, and Martocchio, 2010): Three approaches to conceptualize generations
1) generational cohort theory: Individuals born at (+-) the same time experienced the same historical events at the same point of their development
2) Generational group: cohort of individuals that experienced a particular event, (such as organizational entry?) within a specific interval
3) Kinship based groups: focus on intrafamilial relations.. resource exchanges among present, past, future incumbency (predikantsplaats) based generations
4 dangers of generatoinalized thinking and 1 alternitive
1) Eclusive instead of inclusive thinking
2) Represents reductionism, oversimplifies terms
3) Focusses attention on “wrong” mechanisms of age related change
4) It assumes category membership determines individual attributes
Alternitive: lifespan perspective
Problems with the generation concept
1) Some scientists are highly sceptical about existence of generations
2) Criticism on research/emperical studies: differences in cross sectional samples cant say anything about changes over time
Intergenerational learning: Why care
- aging workforce
- Imminent waves of retirement
Three perspectives on age and HRD:
1) adress hrd needs of different age group (learning of different age groups)
2) Investigate what happens when individuals from different age groups learn together (learning from/with eachother)
3) How can learning from eachother be improved.
