career: key concepts Flashcards
three role-related issues:
- role overload
- role conflict
- role spillover
five types of values:
- lifestyle
- cultural
- work
- intrinsic
- extrinsic
Career Interests
three types of career interests:
- expressed, -manifest
- tested
three stages of burnout:
- emotional exhaustion
- depersonalization
- reduced personal accomplishment
Career
The lifetime pursuits of an individual. While the term can be broadly defined to include all the roles people play throughout their lifetime, many theorists maintain that the term career is largely concerned with an individual’s work and leisure roles.
Role
Broadly refers to a set of interconnected behaviors, rights, and obligations that are associated with a particular social situation. Super (1953) described six major roles (i.e., child, student, leisurite, citizen, worker, homemaker) that individuals play throughout their lifetime. Individuals are often required to play multiple roles in their day-to-day life and can experience (a) role overload (expectations associated with multiple roles exceed an individual’s time, energy, and ability to perform the role adequately); (b) role conflict (demands and expectations of an individual’s multiple roles conflict with each other); or (c) role spillover (one role’s demands and expectations carry over into another role).
job
A position within an organization or company that requires a specific skill set
occupation
The primary activity that engages one’s time. Often, occupations refer to a group of similar positions/jobs found across different organizations and industries (e.g., manager).
leisure
Engaging in activities as a means of passing time; leisure activities are often referred to as hobbies.
career choice
The decisions individuals make at any point in their career about which work and leisure activities to pursue.
Career Salience
The significance or importance an individual places on the role of career in relationship to other life roles. Career salience is often defined by an individual’s participation, commitment, and value expectations.
Values
Beliefs that guide an individual’s behavior and emotional responses. Work values specifically reflect needs that a work environment must reinforce to ensure an individual’s work satisfaction and success. They can be intrinsic (values satisfied from performing the work itself) or extrinsic (values satisfied as a result of completing the work)
Career Adaptability
An individual’s readiness and available resources for coping with changing work and employment conditions. It involves the approach that describes a case, a distinct system of an event, process, setting, or individuals or small group of individuals ability to cope with predictable career development tasks (e.g., preparing and locating a job) as well as a future orientation that permits individuals to continually capitalize on their skills and abilities
Career Adjustment
A worker’s ability to adapt or adjust to the work environment.
Job Satisfaction
How content individuals are with their jobs. Said to result from a match between individuals’ self-concept and the characteristics of their work environments.
