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Career Dynamics: Matching Individual and Organizational Needs

Edgar H. Schein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1978 0-201-06834-6 276 pp. Softcover

Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

With an emphasis on practical implications, this book studies the complexities of career development from both individual and organizational perspectives. Based on the author's research and professional experiences in management development and other human resource areas, the discussion looks at how needs change throughout the adult life cycle, how work and family interact, and how individual and organizational goals can be integrated through human resource planning and development.

Contents

• Individual Development
• The Stages and Tasks of the Bio-social Life Cycle
• The Stages and Tasks of the Career Cycle
• The States, Stages, and Tasks of the Family
• Constructive Coping: What the Individual Can Do About Life Tasks
• Entry Into the Organizational Career
• Socialization and Learning to Work
• Mutual Acceptance: Defining the Psychological Contract
• The Development of Career Anchors: Technical and Managerial
• Security, Autonomy, and Creativity as Career Anchors
• Career Anchors in Perspective: Some Related Research
• Mid-Career: Making It, Leveling Off, or Starting Over
• Human Resource Planning and Development: A Total System
• Human Resource Planning and Career Stages
• Job/Role Planning
• Toward an Integrated View of Human Resource Planning and Development
• Appendixes: Career Anchor Self-Analysis Form; Case Example: Diamond Products Corp
• Bibliography

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