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Psycho-social Career Meta-capacities

Dynamics of contemporary career development

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Melinde Coetzee

    1. Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of South Africa, Muckleneuk, Gauteng, South Africa

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  • Introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities needed for successful career development

  • Allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs in career development, adaptability, employability and wellbeing

  • Offers new perspectives of career constructs and measures for career counseling and contemporary career guidance

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Psycho-Social Dynamics of the Contemporary Career Development Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
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    2. Employability and Self-Regulation in Contemporary Careers

      • Claudia M. van der Heijde
      Pages 7-17

    3. Using Protean Career Attitude to Facilitate a Positive Approach to Unemployment

      • Lea Waters, Jon Briscoe, Douglas T. Hall
      Pages 19-33

    4. Personality and Psycho-Social Employability Attributes as Meta-capacities for Sustained Employability

      • Ingrid L. Potgieter
      Pages 35-54

    5. Adaptability in Action: Using Personality, Interest, and Values Data to Help Clients Increase Their Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Career Meta-capacities

      • Sarah D. Stauffer, Christian Maggiori, Ariane Froidevaux, Jérôme Rossier
      Pages 55-73

    6. Constructing Career Identity Through Systemic Thinking

      • Mary McMahon
      Pages 75-86

    7. A Psychological Career Resources Framework for Contemporary Career Development

      • Melinde Coetzee
      Pages 87-115

  3. Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities in Organizational Career Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-122
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    2. Person Environment Fit and Vocational Outcomes

      • Kerrie G. Wilkins, Terence J. G. Tracey
      Pages 123-138

    3. Career Anchors as a Meta-Capacity in Organizational Career Development

      • Melinde Coetzee, Dries (A.M.G.) Schreuder
      Pages 139-154

    4. Exploring the Theoretical Relationship Between Psychological Ownership and Career Anchors

      • Chantal Olckers, Yvonne du Plessis
      Pages 155-173

    5. Career Meta-Competencies in the Retention of Employees

      • Nadia Ferreira
      Pages 175-195

  4. Career Wellbeing and Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-201
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    2. Flourishing in Work and Careers

      • S.(Ian) Rothmann
      Pages 203-220

    3. Sense of Coherence and Professional Career Development

      • Claude-Hélène Mayer
      Pages 221-240

  5. Psycho-Social Career Meta-Capacities in Educational Career Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-246
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    2. Contemporary Career Construction: The Role of Career Adaptability

      • Laura Nota, Maria Cristina Ginevra, Sara Santilli, Salvatore Soresi
      Pages 247-263

    3. Flourishing Interventions: A Practical Guide to Student Development

      • Llewellyn Ellardus Van Zyl, Marius Wilhelm Stander
      Pages 265-276

    4. Anticipatory Psychological Contracts of Undergraduates Management Students: Implications for Early Career Entitlement Expectations

      • Bennie Linde, Werner Gresse
      Pages 277-292
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This book introduces a coherent perspective on the self-regulatory career meta-capacities that individuals, as career agents, need to successfully manage their career development in a boundaryless occupational world. Enriched by empirical data and case studies by subject specialists in the fields, it serves as a cutting-edge benchmark for specialists, professionals and post-graduate students in the careers field to study. This book allows an in-depth view of the most recent research trends on the critical psycho-social constructs influencing the adaptation, adaptivity, adaptability and employability of individuals in a turbulent, uncertain and chaotic work world. In addition, it offers the practising professional new perspectives of career constructs and measures to consider in career counseling and guidance for the contemporary career.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Industrial and Organisational Psychology, University of South Africa, Muckleneuk, Gauteng, South Africa

    Melinde Coetzee

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