1st Edition
Career Barriers How People Experience, Overcome, and Avoid Failure
By Manuel London
Copyright 1998
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
240 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This volume's goal is to help readers understand how people react to career barriers and how people develop constructive ways of coping with them. Drawing on original cases and data from interviews with people who faced different types of career barriers, the author describes how people react to, and make sense of, unfortunate events in their lives--and career barriers when they occur. He... Read more
Contents: Part I: What is a Career Barrier?Examples and Types of Barrier? Part II: How People React to Career Barriers.The Pain of Failure. Coping Strategies. Career Motivation: Resilience, Insight, and Identity. Resilience and Hardiness: The Basis for Inner Strength. Part III: Ways to Help People Overcome Career Barriers.Sources of Support. Methods for Constructive Responses. Part IV: Ways to Avoid Career Barriers.Toward Multiple Careers and Continuous Learning. Appendices: Additional Cases. Catalogue of Cases. Case Description and Rating Forms. Relationship Between Appraisal, Coping, and Career Motivation.
Biography
Manuel London
"Career Barriers contains important insights that should guide both researchers and practitioners in their attempts to understand and manage the many dilemmas of corporate life that lie ahead in the twenty-first century."
—Academy of Management Review"This book covers the field of career barriers in a comprehensive fashion....I find the book's structure around the career motivation theme helpful and enlightening."
—Personnel Psychology
