The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty-First CenturyThe Chaos Theory of Careers outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. It draws together and extends the work that the authors have been doing over the last 8 to 10 years. This text represents a new perspective on the nature of career development. It emphasizes the dimensions of careers frequently neglected by contemporary accounts of careers such as the challenges and opportunities of uncertainty, the interconnectedness of current life and the potential for information overload, career wisdom as a response to unplanned change, new approaches to vocational assessment based on emergent thinking, the place of spirituality and the search for meaning and purpose in, with and through work, the integration of being and becoming as dimensions of career development. It will be vital reading for all those working in and studying career development, either at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level and provides a new and refreshing approach to this fast changing subject. Key themes include: Factors such as complexity, change, and contribution People's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment Contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the working world |
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... concepts of causality and predictability on which Einstein , not to mention Newton , had depended were themselves challenged by quantum mechanics . Suddenly it became apparent that there were parts of reality at the sub - atomic level ...
... concepts and ideas of the theory have been applied across economics , political science , aesthetics , theology and clinical psychology . In fact , aspects of chaos theory are found in various forms in popular culture , especially films ...
... concept of fit between individuals and occupations as the basis for predicting occupational outcomes or as a basis for practice has been subject to an exponentially increasing critical commentary (e.g., Amundson, 2003a, 2005; Arnold ...
... concept of congruence in Holland's ( 1997 ) theory accounts for only 1 % -4 % of the outcome measure variance . He proposes 14 problems with the theory including inadequate conceptualization of the person and the environment ...
... concept of “phase shift” in its account of careers in terms of complex dynamical systems. We live in a highly interconnected world that is subject to continuous, unpredictable and sometimes dramatic change. Indeed, each and every one of ...
Contents
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Attractors | |
Patterns and Fractals | |
Research Support | |
Strategies for Chaos Theory Career Counseling and Assessment | |
Counseling and Assessment | |
Meaning Purpose and Spirituality | |
Organizational Development | |
Where Are We Going and Where We Have Been | |
Appendices Bibliography | |
Index | |
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The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty ... Robert Pryor,Jim Bright No preview available - 2011 |
The Chaos Theory of Careers: A New Perspective on Working in the Twenty ... Robert Pryor,Jim Bright No preview available - 2011 |