Overview

Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on a major question in the global research and practice of career development and adopts a distinctive approach in response. The authors address the question of how and to what extent a predominant influence of Western thinking about careers interferes with our understanding of careers in other parts of the world. The approach involves identifying career topics for further exploration, recruiting teams of Indian and Western scholars on each topic to share their insights, and laying out those insights to help both careers researchers and practitioners see their significance. As a result, in this remarkable collaboration the reader is invited to compare views on self-awareness and careers from traditional Indian Ayurvedic and alternative Western perspectives, alongside contrasting Indian and Western reports on women stepping off their career ladders, the motivation of social entrepreneurs, the careers of IT workers, MBA holders and management scholars and other topics. Career and cross-cultural researchers and career and HR practitioners will be fascinated by the comparative analysis of career dynamics.

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Author:   Premarajan Raman Kadiyil ,  Anneleen Forrier ,  Michael B. Arthur
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781789901498

ISBN 10:   1789901499
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   19 May 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents: 1 Introduction to Career Dynamics in a Global World 1 Premarajan Raman Kadiyil, Anneleen Forrier and Michael B. Arthur PART I SELF AND CAREER 2 An incongruence-driven approach to careers: insights from Ayurveda 13 Anupama Kondayya and Srinivas Ekkirala 3 Self-awareness in career development: meaning, importance and malleability 24 Marijke Verbruggen PART II SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CAREER CHOICE 4 A field research of nascent social entrepreneurs' intention formation 37 Preeti Tiwari, Anil K. Bhat and Jyoti Tikoria 5 Individual factors in predicting and encouraging social entrepreneurship as a career choice 51 Mary Conway Dato-on, Sharmistha Banerjee and Yasmin Mesbah PART III STEPPING OFF THE CAREER LADDER 6 Satisficing career choices of Indian women managers 66 Sumita Datta and Snehal Shah 7 Stepping off the career ladder: exploring the impact of career shocks on women's career decisions in the UK 80 Angela Stephanie Mazzetti PART IV MBA CAREERS ACROSS THE GLOBE 8 Economic structural changes and subjective career success of MBAs in India 96 Vivek G. Nair and Leena Chatterjee 9 How an MBA contributes to the unfolding of careers: a comparative analysis 110 Elizabeth Houldsworth, Chris Brewster and Richard McBain PART V BREAKING AND RE-ENTRY 10 Women's careers: starting a new chapter post career break 124 Pavni Kaushiva and Chetan Joshi 11 Can we release the brake on the career re-entry of mothers? A UK perspective 136 Anna Katharina Bader and John Blenkinsopp PART VI ACADEMIC CAREERS 12 The changing nature of academic careers in management education in India 150 Ravishankar Venkata Kommu and Amit Dhiman 13 The changing nature of academic careers in management education in Western societies 162 Yehuda Baruch PART VII CAREERS IN IT 14 Flying high in the turbulent skies: managing careers in the Indian IT industry 177 Gunjan Tomer and Pawan Budhwar 15 Risk allocation, employer dependence and the welfare state: an investigation of IT workers in the US and Canada 191 Sara Haviland and Jennifer Craft Morgan PART VIII OPTING OUT OR STAYING IN 16 Integrating care work for sustainable careers of women: an Indian perspective 207 Tania Saritova Rath and Mousumi Padhi 17 Leaning in: why some women are challenging the opt-out model 220 Margie J. Elley-Brown Index 233

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'This book fills an important gap in our cross-cultural understanding of the psychology of careers. The interesting pairing of chapters from Western and South Asian (Indian) cultural perspectives, and mix of etic and emic studies of careers in the 21st century is a timely reminder that careers are constantly being constructed by individuals, societies and the times we live in!' -- Kim Yin Chan, Nanyang Business School, Singapore

'Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on the difficult, but invaluable, task of unpacking the complex topic of career development from both Western and South Asian perspectives. For anyone who is passionate about building a more human-centred future world of work, this book is a vital must-read in helping to understand individual and cultural-drivers with regards to career development in a connected and globalised world.' -- Leena Nair, Chief HR Officer, Unilever, UK 'Insight into contemporary careers in a global world is likely to take a giant leap forward with the publication of this timely book. The editors have done a masterful job assembling pairs of fascinating chapters that peer deeply into critical topics from Western and Indian perspectives.' -- Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Drexel University, US 'This book fills an important gap in our cross-cultural understanding of the psychology of careers. The interesting pairing of chapters from Western and South Asian (Indian) cultural perspectives, and mix of etic and emic studies of careers in the 21st century is a timely reminder that careers are constantly being constructed by individuals, societies and the times we live in!' -- Kim Yin Chan, Nanyang Business School, Singapore

Author Information

Edited by Premarajan Raman Kadiyil, OB and HRM Area XLRI Jamshedpur, India, Anneleen Forrier, Professor, Department of Work and Organisation Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium and Michael B. Arthur, Emeritus Professor, Suffolk University, Boston, US and Visiting Professor, Cranfield University, UK

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