Overview
- Synthesizes current social and theoretical issues from a critical perspective, such as the social construction of identity and career subjectivity
- Combines the latest research on identity with applications for HRD practitioners to incorporate into career development programs
- Describes the role of identity as a crucial yet underexplored area of career development for a wide audience of scholars, graduate students, practitioners
Part of the book series: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma (PAEWS)
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This book closely interrogates the construct of identity and the role it plays in career development. It provides guidance for HRD practitioners and researchers who create career development programs through a typology of different categories of identity, such as demographics, life events, and career histories.
The book presents a framework for considering and addressing career development from a critically reflective perspective of identity as a result of choice, chance, and adaptation. It offers a comprehensive understanding and awareness of tacit, nuanced, and stigmatized issues that were once shameful but have now become more socially acceptable. As a result, HRD practitioners can design programs and resources that have a richness and relevance that might heretofore be lacking. The book also offers guidance for individuals as they take charge of their own identities and career trajectories in an increasingly complex and unpredictable working environment.
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Book Title: Identity, Meaning, and Subjectivity in Career Development
Book Subtitle: Evolving Perspectives in Human Resources
Authors: Julie Gedro
Series Title: Palgrave Explorations in Workplace Stigma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51589-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51588-5Published: 20 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84692-7Published: 01 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51589-2Published: 07 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-3625
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3633
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 159
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Resource Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Self and Identity