Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives / Edition 1

by J. H. "Kerr" Inkson, Kerr Inkson

Overview

Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives uses a unique framework of nine archetypal metaphors to encapsulate the field of career studies. Using an easy-to-read style, author Kerr Inkson examines key concepts, illustrating them with over 50 authentic career cases, to build an excellent bridge between theory and "real life."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761929505
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/07/2006
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Kerr Inkson is Professor of Management at the University of Otago, Visiting Professor of Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and Honorary Research Fellow at Massey University, all in New Zealand. He has a Ph D from the University of Otago. Since commencing his academic work in the 1960s Kerr has had a distinguished career in management studies and organizational behavior, and has worked at a number of business schools in the New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. Since the early 1990s his research has focused on careers, and he published The New Careers (co-authored by Michael B Arthur and Judith K Pringle) with Sage in 1999. Other recent books include Management: New Zealand Perspectives (third edition, Prentice-Hall, 2002, co-authored with Darl Kolb) and Cultural Intelligence (Berrett-Koehler, 2004, co-authored with David C. Thomas). He is author of several other books and over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, many of them on career themes. In 2005-6 he was Chair of the Careers Division, Academy of Management.

Website: http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/mgmt/staff/kinkson.htm
Email: [e-mail].

Table of Contents

List of Cases
Introduction
Chapter 1: Careers and Metaphors
Chapter 2: Careers as Inheritances
Chapter 3: Careers as Cycles
Chapter 4: Careers as Action
Chapter 5: Careers as Fit
Chapter 6: Careers as Journeys
Chapter 7: Careers as Roles
Chapter 8: Careers as Relationships
Chapter 9: Careers as Resources
Chapter 10: Careers as Stories
Chapter 11: Careers in Practice
Chapter 12: Career Counselling and Metaphor By Mary Mcmahon

Editorial Reviews

"A unique frame work to understand the field of career studies."

The Financial Express

"It comes as a pleasant breath of realism and common-sense together to pick up Kerr Inkson's book. Understanding Careers plays several roles- helping us to understand metaphors in careers just as Morgan did in organizations, meditating and consolidating a wealth of qualitative organizational and career-related research (chapters have excellent lists of further reading), providing most timely advice on career counseling (good for specialists and an underplayed field), and offering numerous case-studies (of real and plausible people) for students to examine. A thoughtful and topical introduction to its field, bringing together a wide range of related topics and research, clear for students and convincing for people further on )even pragmatic skeptics will get drawn in) and a timely read for all employees."

Stuart Hannabuss