Part I: Background to Career Studies
Chapter 1: Career and Metaphor
Chapter 2: Careers in Context
Part II: Images of Career
Chapter 3: Careers as Inheritances
Chapter 4: Careers as Cycles
Chapter 5: Careers as Action
Chapter 6: Careers as Fit
Chapter 7: Careers as Journeys
Chapter 8: Careers as Roles
Chapter 9: Careers as Relationships
Chapter 10: Careers as Resources
Chapter 11: Careers as Stories
Part III: Careers in Practice
Chapter 12: Career Self-Management
Chapter 13: Career Counseling and Helping
Chapter 14: Organizational Career Management
Kerr Inkson (PhD University of Otago, New Zealand) is an Emeritus
Professor in the University of Auckland Business School, New
Zealand. His 55-year academic career included 32 years as full
Professor, at five New Zealand universities. He has expertise in
management, organizational behavior and career development, and his
careers research includes work on new forms of career, the use of
metaphor in career theory and practice, and international careers.
He was first author of a paper “Expatriate assignment versus
overseas experience: contrasting models of human resource
development” which was awarded Best International Paper by the
Academy of Management in 1997. He is a former Chair of the Careers
Division, Academy of Management.
Kerr has been the author or co-author of 18 books, over 50 book
chapters and 75 refereed journal articles. His journal credits
include Administrative Science Quarterly, British Journal of
Management, Human Relations, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal
of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal
of Vocational Behavior, Journal of World Business, Organizational
Dynamics, and Organization Studies. His latest books are
Understanding Careers, 2nd edition, co-authored with Nicky Dries
and John Arnold, SAGE, 2015; Cultural Intelligence, 3rd edition,
co-authored with David C Thomas, Berrett-Koehler, 2017; and Laugh
out Loud: A Users’ Guide to Workplace Humor, co-authored with
Barbara Plester, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Recently retired, he
lives in Auckland with his wife Nan, plays some golf, and writes,
directs and acts in plays on the local amateur drama scene.
Nicky Dries is a Research Professor at the KU Leuven, Faculty of
Business and Economics (Belgium). She conducted her doctoral
research on talent management and (subjective) career success at
the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), during which time she was
also a visiting scholar at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the
Netherlands). Since then, she has been a visiting scholar at the
University of Tilburg (the Netherlands), at Wirtschaftsuniversität
Vienna (Austria), at Reykjavik University (Iceland), and a
Fulbright scholar at Boston University School of Management (US).
Nicky has published articles in international journals in the areas
of career management, human resource management, and vocational
psychology, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of
Vocational Behavior (JVB) and the European Journal of Work and
Organizational Psychology (EJWOP). Nicky′s primary research
interests are talent, potential, and success - and more generally,
the interplay of organizational-strategic and
individual-psychological factors in shaping careers. She is
actively involved in two large-scale cross-cultural projects on
contemporary careers, i.e. 5C (Consortium for the Cross-Cultural
Study of Contemporary Careers) and the Career Adaptability/Life
Design project.
John Arnold is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at
Loughborough University, and a member of the School’s Research
Centre for Professional Work and Society. From 2011 to 2013 he was
head of the Institute of Work Psychology (IWP), at the University
of Sheffield, and prior to that had extensive experience at
Loughborough University Business School (15 years), and Manchester
University School of Management (8 years). John is a Fellow and
Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society, and a
Registered Psychologist. He was editor of Journal of Occupational
and Organizational Psychology (JOOP) from 2004 to 2008, and is
currently a consulting editor with JOOP, Journal of Vocational
Behavior, Human Relations, and Organizational Psychology Review.
He has been Principal or Co-investigator on 21 externally
funded research projects and has published over 70 refereed journal
articles. John is author or co-author of a number of books
including Managing Careers into the Twenty-first Century (1997),
and lead author for the first five editions of the textbook Work
Psychology. He was a member of the Business and Management panel in
the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and is repeating
that role in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework process.
This is a wonderful resource on careers for students,
practitioners, and academics – a rich mix of current research,
cases, practical examples, and creative lenses (metaphors) for
seeing careers in a new way. It is equally accessible and
stimulating for all levels of reader and it’s all presented in
lively, clear, and compelling writing - an extremely
reader-friendly book!
*Douglas T. (Tim) Hall*
In this timely update of an iconic book, the authors deepen our
understanding of career by inspecting its meaning from multiple
perspectives on work lives. The innovations and elaborations in
this second edition maintain Understanding Careers’ reputation as a
fundamental text in vocational and organizational psychology as
well as keystone volume in career counseling.
*Mark L. Savickas*
A really valuable contribution....very effective in integrating the
different branches of career studies. Very clear, and well argued.
Right on the mark!
*Gareth Morgan*
Understanding Careers is the essential career studies textbook for
general college and university-level courses. As with the first
edition, the writing is crystal clear with a highly impressive
range of scholarship skilfully marshalled from a number of
disciplines relevant to career studies. I have used this excellent
book for several years in my teaching and find it helps students
easily make sense of the career studies field by linking images
with contemporary case studies and exercises. This is a superb
introductory text for career development professionals and their
clients. This wonderful book has revolutionised the design and
content of career management programmes in schools, colleges,
university and the workplace.
*Phil McCash*
In a series of fourteen highly readable chapters, Kerr Inkson and
his colleagues present a metaphorical approach to careers. The
result is a series of insightful and contrasting views, each
informative in its own right, and together a call for further
conversation. Readers will be both entertained and enlightened by
this book.
*Michael B Arthur*
A wonderfully original, rich, thoughtful, intelligent and helpful
exploration of the complexities of making one′s way through life,
with excellent practical advice on how to go about doing so. The
authors recognize the complexity of career, but use Inkson′s
framework of career metaphors to provide ways of making sense of it
without trivializing as so many books about career do. Anyone using
this book to teach or to learn about careers will find it immensely
useful, rewarding, and enjoyable.
*Hugh Gunz*
A masterful blend of carer theory and practice, Understanding
Careers offers a wonderfully comprehensive and magnificently
engaging look at work and careers in contemporary times. Kerr
Inkson, Nicky Dries, and John Arnold offer in this book both the
best careers scholarship for the serious career studies educator
and researcher as well as the most useful career intervention
strategies for career practitioners, students, and anyone
interested in fostering their own career development. Packed
with theory, history, case studies, and practical material, this
book is a must read that will serve as an invaluable resource for
years to come.
*Paul Hartung*
Making an excellent book even better is difficult - but the new
edition of ′Understanding Careers′ has done exactly that. The
authors keep the highly praised core of the first edition -
powerful metaphors underlying careers - and add new perspectives on
context and careers in practice, leading to a must-read not only
for students and researchers of careers, but also for career
practitioners. Absolutely recommendable!
*Wolfgang Mayrhofer*
A first class text combining the strengths of the earlier version
with new ideas from contemporary research and practice.
The new chapters on career self-management and organizational
management systems are perfect additions making the book an
invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners and students alike.
Kudos to the authors for this excellent piece of work, and lucky us
being able to benefit from their collaboration! The teaching aids
offer are an excellent ′toolkit′ for educators seeking to prepare
students for their future careers: innovative, engaging and thought
provoking.
*Julia Richardson*
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