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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... outcomes or as a basis for practice has been subject to an exponentially increasing critical commentary (e.g., Amundson, 2003a, 2005; Arnold, 2004; Bright, Pryor & Harpham, 2005; Patton & McMahon, 2006; Pryor & Bright, 2003a,b, 2007 ...
... outcomes for clients . Arnold ( 2004 ) noted that congruence between the person and environment has been shown in several metastudies to correlate poorly ( between 0.1 and 0.2 ) with outcome measures such as satisfaction ( e.g. ...
... outcomes of their actions than they actually have in day-to- day human experience (Pryor & Bright, 2003b). In fact, we rarely have complete information before we make all sorts of decisions, and even more rarely can we be assured of all ...
... maintain its stability in the face of influences to change. However, because change can be non-linear, iterative and unpredictable (Briggs & Peat, 1989), there remains the perpetual possibility that new outcomes for the.
... outcomes for the system may emerge (Laszlo, 1991; Morowitz, 2002). This is experienced in the contingent nature of human life and experience—out of any set of circumstances, various outcomes are possible but only one is ever actualized ...
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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