1. Chapter 17 Managing Your Career
Explain occupational and organizational choice decisions.
Identify foundations for a successful career.
Explain the career model.
Explain the major tasks facing individuals in the establishment stage of the career model.
Identify the issues confronting individuals in the advancement stage of the career model.
Describe how individuals can navigate the challenges of the maintenance stage of the career model.
Explain how individuals withdraw from the workforce.
Explain how career anchors help form a career identity.
Learning Outcomes
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2. Career vs. Career Management
CAREER - the pattern of work-related experiences that span the course of a person’s life
CAREER MANAGEMENT - a lifelong process of learning about self, jobs, and organizations; setting personal career goals; developing strategies for achieving the goals, and revising the goals based on work and life experiences
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3. Career: Paradigm Shift
LO1
Career: Paradigm Shift
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4. Personalities and Choices
LO1
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5. Conflicts During Organizational Entry
LO1
The individual’s attempt
to attract the organization
Organizational efforts to
attract individuals 2 1 4 3
The individual’s choice
of an organization
Organizational selection
of individuals
SOURCE: Figure in L.W. Porter, E.E. Lawler III, and J. R. Hackman, Behavior in Organizations, New York:
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6. Foundations for Successful Career
LO2
Foundations for Successful Career
Be your own coach -Stay flexible, team oriented, energized by change, and tolerant of ambiguity
Emotional intelligence - 40% of new managers fail within the first 18 months on the job because they fail to build good relationships with peers and subordinates.
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LO4
Tasks of the Newcomer
Negotiate an effective psychological contract
\Manage the stress of socialization
Make the transition from organizational outsider to organizational insider
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9. LO4
Newcomer-Insider Psychological
Contracts for Social Support

10. Advancement: Career Path and Ladder
LO5
Advancement: Career Path and Ladder
Career Path – a sequence of job experiences that an employee moves along during his or her career
Career Ladder – a structured series
of job positions through which an
individual progresses in an
organization
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11. Advancement: Mentoring
LO6
Functions provided by a mentor
Psychosocial functions provided by a mentor
Characteristics of good mentoring relationships
Regular contact
Consistency with corporate culture
Training in managing the relationship
Accountability
Prestige for mentor
Career functions:
Sponsorship
Exposure and visibility
Coaching
Protection
Psychosocial Functions:
Role model
Acceptance and confirmation
Counseling
Friendship
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12. Phases of Mentoring Initiation - relationship begins
LO1
Phases of Mentoring
Initiation - relationship begins
Cultivation - relationship gains meaning
Separation - protégé asserts independence
Redefinition - relationship has new identity
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Maintenance Stage
LO6
Crisis
Slowed or stalled career growth
Burnout
Contentment
Sense of achievement
No need to strive for continued upward mobility OR
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LO7
Retirement factors
Family
Issues
Health
Company
Policy
Income
Opportunity
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15. Various Career Anchors
LO8
Various Career Anchors
Managerial
Competence
Technical/Functional
Competence
Autonomy and
Independence
Security/Stability
Creativity
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