Work Careers

Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.

Foreword xi Neal Schmitt Preface xv The Contributors xix Part One: Foundations of Career Development 1 Stability in the Midst of Change: A Developmental Perspective on the Study of Careers 3 Daniel C. Feldman 2 More than the Big Five: Personality and Careers 27 Jill C. Bradley, Arthur P. Brief, Jennifer M. George 3 Skill Acquisition and Person-Environment Fit 63 Cheri Ostroff, Yuhyung Shin, Barbara Feinberg Part Two: Career Development Across the Life Span 4 When you come to a Fork in the Road, Take it: Career Indecision and Vocational Choices of Teenagers and Young Adults 93 Daniel C. Feldman 5 The School-to-Work Transition 126 Elizabeth Wolfe Morrison 6 The Establishment Years: A Dependence Perspective 159 Terri A. Scandura 7 Career Development in Midcareer 186 Harvey L. Sterns, Linda M. Subich 8 Career Issues Facing Older Workers 214 Terry A. Beehr, Nathan A. Bowling Part Three: The Changing Context of Career Development 9 Public Policy and the Changing Legal Context of Career Development 245 Jon M. Werner 10 The Changing Organizational Context of Careers 274 Carrie R. Leana 11 International Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: A New Look at Expatriation 294 Gregory K. Stephens, Allan Bird, Mark E. Mendenhall Part Four: Directions for Industrial/Organizational Practice and Research 12 Organizational Assistance in Career Development 323 Manuel London 13 Advancing Research on Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective on Theory Building and Empirical Research 346 Daniel C. Feldman Name Index 373 Subject Index 385