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Mid and late career issues : an integrative perspective / Mo Wang, Deborah A. Olson, Kenneth S. Schultz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wang, Mo., author.
- Series:
- Series in applied psychology (New York, N.Y.)
- Series in applied psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Career changes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This new book looks at the unique career issues faced by those workers in their mid and late career stages, particularly with regard to the psychosocial dynamics of mid and late careers. With the growth in aging workers worldwide, we need a deeper understanding of the unique challenges and issues as well as the practical implications related to the shifting demographics to an older workforce, particularly the aging of the baby boom generation. This book reviews, summarizes and integrates the literature on a wide variety of issues and organizational realities related to these workers. Numero
- Contents:
- Understanding mid and late career: transformations and challenges
- The evolution of career theory
- The changing nature of work, workers, the workforce, and organizations
- Career issues unique to mid and late careers: individual level factors
- Career issues unique to mid and late careers: job level factors
- Career issues unique to mid and late careers: organizational level factors
- Mid and late career renewal: opportunities and challenges
- Performance management: issues and challenges
- Training, development, and mentoring
- Work and nonwork issues for individuals in their mid and late career
- The transition to retirement
- A resource based dynamic perspective on mid and late careers.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-21832-7
- 1-283-71248-2
- 0-203-09647-9
- 1-136-21833-5
- 9780203096475
- OCLC:
- 817891768
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