About the Book
This fascinating book comprises case studies of careers from 24 countries across the globe, highlighting culture-specific career issues, and encouraging reflection on one’s own career. Interwoven with current theoretical and empirical insights from career studies, it emphasises the importance of our respective contextual settings.
Reflecting socio-political changes around the globe, the book discusses a range of factors that can influence career success, including personal characteristics, stability and change, boundaries and borders, and gender. Chapters examine key themes such as career reinvention, professional resilience in times of financial crisis, support for immigrants in transitioning to local labour markets, and the effect of Brexit on career motivations, across countries including Argentina, Canada, India, Japan, Nigeria, and Switzerland. Throughout the book, contributors consider three defined perspectives on careers – ontic, spatial, and temporal – to identify the fundamental aspects of careers around the world.
Proposing new solutions to contemporary career issues, this book will be vital reading for students and teachers of human resource management, international business, organisational behaviour, economics and finance. It will also be beneficial for guidance counsellors, careers advisers and coaches, and HR professionals.
Table of Contents:
Contents:
PART I THE LAY OF THE LAND
1 Careers: what they are and how to look at them 2
Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Jon Briscoe, Michael Dickmann,
Douglas T. Hall and Emma Parry
2 One, two, many ways – a hands-on guide to how to
navigate this book 9
Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Jon Briscoe, Michael Dickmann,
Douglas T. Hall and Emma Parry
PART II PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
3 Walking a tightrope – the fulfillment of psychological
needs in a self-determined two-job situation in Germany 15
Nanni Schleicher and Florian Schramm
4 Leonardo da Vinci’s spirit: a career story of an Italian
creative entrepreneur 25
Silvia Bagdadli and Martina Gianecchini
5 Agency and structure in career-related decisions: an
example from the financial crisis in Portugal 36
Silvia Dello Russo and Henrique Duarte
6 Crises and digitalization: your skills are unlimited, just
discover them! Individual skills and their discovery in
times of turbulence 47
K. Övgü Çakmak-Otluoğlu
PART III STABILITY AND CHANGE
7 Career reinvention in Russia 56
Konstantin Korotov, Svetlana N. Khapova and Evgenia I. Lysova
8 Career inaction in Belgium: when you want to make
a career change, but you just … don’t 64
Nicky Dries and Marijke Verbruggen
9 Career resilience in times of financial crisis in Greece 73
Leda Panayotopoulou
10 Change and continuity of career ecosystems for a parent
company and foreign subsidiary in Japan 81
Chikae Naito and Mami Taniguchi
11 Career conditions in Pakistan: “apna banda” and career growth 92
Noreen Saher
12 Family as an anchor during career transition: a case from India 101
Akhila Veldandi, Sushanta Kumar Mishra and Richa Saxena
PART IV BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS
13 The Canadian Mosaic lives on: supporting immigrants in
transitioning to the local labour market 111
Rick Cotton and Mila Lazarova
14 A carpenter yesterday, an electronics technician today:
a Syrian refugee’s career transition and subjective career
success upon entering the German labour market 121
Maike Andresen and Svenja Rosseburg
15 Careers in turbulent environments: the impact of ‘Brexit’
on career motivations and behaviour in the United Kingdom 131
Michael Dickmann, Emma Parry and Katharina Chudzikowski
16 Back to the motherland: careers of Nigeria’s returning diasporas 142
Furo Bakare, Yetunde Anibaba and Ifedapo Adeleye
PART V GENDER
17 Facing sexism in her way to the top: from “struggling
alone” to “institutional support” in Argentina 152
Pamela A. Suzanne and Vanesa Vidal
18 Against all odds: a career success story of a woman of
lower-class origin in Austria 162
Lea Katharina Reiss, Petra Eggenhofer-Rehart, Wolfgang
Mayrhofer and Astrid Reichel
19 Gender and academic careers in Ireland: towards greater
gender equality 172
Janine Bosak and Pat O’Connor
PART VI GENERATIONS
20 To retire or not to retire? Teachers’ motivation to work in
post-retirement in Lithuania 183
Bernadeta Goštautaitė and Virginija Putnaitė
21 ‘Old’ and ‘new’, now and then – reflections on four
careers in Switzerland 192
Martin Gubler
22 A hundred years of solitude and fight: careers in Slovakia
across three generations in Central and Eastern Europe 203
Sonia Ferencikova
PART VII ORGANIZATIONS
23 Career coaching athletes: a career intervention for
a specialized career in Australia 214
Narelle Hess and Denise Jepsen
24 What attracts young people today? Insights from Mexico 222
Sergio Madero Gómez and José Luis Montes Martínez
25 Career success through horizontal career transitions: an
example from a Norwegian organization 231
Bryndís Steindórsdóttir and Anders Dysvik
26 Talent management: exclusive career management in
inclusive Finland 240
Adam Smale
Index 248
About the Author :
Edited by Jon Briscoe, Professor of Management, College of Business, Northern Illinois University, US, Michael Dickmann, Professor of International Human Resource Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK, Douglas T. (Tim) Hall, Professor Emeritus, Boston University, US, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Professor of Management and Organisational Behaviour, WU Vienna, Austria and Emma Parry, Professor of Human Resource Management, School of Management, Cranfield University, UK
Review :
‘This book is a 'must' for anyone wanting to understand contemporary careers in a global context - whoever you are and wherever you may be. Drawing on the expertise of a truly global team of experts, it invites us to engage with careers in twenty different countries interweaving individual, organisational, industry and national perspectives. Theoretically innovative, empirically rigorous and very well written it is a pleasure to read. Enjoy!’
