280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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In terms of time, energy, and money, a career is one of the most important investments that a person makes during his or her lifetime. Career Stress in Changing Times is an exciting volume that covers the entire career cycle, from beginning through mid-career dilemmas to the retirement transition. Many key career issues and stressors--as they are experienced during each stage of one’s career--are... Read more
Contents
Preface
- I. Introduction
- The Changing Times of Life: Career in Context
- Career Experiences: Current and Future Themes
- II. The Beginning
- Career Planning
- Adjusting to a New Organization: Easing the Transition From Outsider to Insider
- Transition From School to Work
- III. The Mid-Career Issues
- Work and Non-Work Issues in the Management of Occupational Careers in the 1990s
- Intracompany Job Transfers: An Exploratory Two-Sample Study of the Buffering Effects of Interpersonal Support
- Merger and Acquisition Stress: Fear and Uncertainty at Mid-Career
- Staying With or Leaving the Organization
- The Middle Years: Career Stage Differences
- Mid-Career Transition
- IV. The End Game
- Why Retire Early?
- Time to Move On?
- Career Stress in Changing Times: Some Final Observations
Biography
Robert E Hess
