Making Career Stories Navigating Work and a Sense of Security /
This book is about how people construct career stories: the stories we use to make sense of our work life. Mark Scillio explores the idea of security in the current turbulent employment climate, investigating employment experiences in developed, wealthy countries like Australia, the United States, a...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55179-1 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Situating the Study
- 2. Conceptualizing Career Security
- 3. Entangled Work Motivations
- 4. How Routines Shape Career Stories
- 5. Organizations as Places of Learning and Self-Development
- 6. Narrative Crises
- 7. Developing an Entrepreneurial Story
- 8. Creating your own Structures: Implications for the Self
- 9. Personalizing Social Problems
- 10. The Audience as a Social Context and Form of Grounding
- 11. Possible Selves and Career Stories
- 12. Structure and Coherence in Career Stories
- 13. Conclusion. Career Security and Keeping a Good Story Going.