Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on a major question in the global research and practice of career development and adopts a distinctive approach in response. The authors address the question of how and to what extent a predominant influence of Western thinking about careers interferes with our understanding of careers in other parts of the world. The approach involves identifying career topics for further exploration, recruiting teams of Indian and Western scholars on each topic to share their insights, and laying out those insights to help both careers researchers and practitioners see their significance.
As a result, in this remarkable collaboration the reader is invited to compare views on self-awareness and careers from traditional Indian Ayurvedic and alternative Western perspectives, alongside contrasting Indian and Western reports on women stepping off their career ladders, the motivation of social entrepreneurs, the careers of IT workers, MBA holders and management scholars and other topics.
Career and cross-cultural researchers and career and HR practitioners will be fascinated by the comparative analysis of career dynamics.
Contents:
1 Introduction to Career Dynamics in a Global World 1
Premarajan Raman Kadiyil, Anneleen Forrier and
Michael B. Arthur
PART I SELF AND CAREER
2 An incongruence-driven approach to careers: insights
from Ayurveda 13
Anupama Kondayya and Srinivas Ekkirala
3 Self-awareness in career development: meaning,
importance and malleability 24
Marijke Verbruggen
PART II SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CAREER CHOICE
4 A field research of nascent social entrepreneurs'
intention formation 37
Preeti Tiwari, Anil K. Bhat and Jyoti Tikoria
5 Individual factors in predicting and encouraging social
entrepreneurship as a career choice 51
Mary Conway Dato-on, Sharmistha Banerjee and
Yasmin Mesbah
PART III STEPPING OFF THE CAREER LADDER
6 Satisficing career choices of Indian women managers 66
Sumita Datta and Snehal Shah
7 Stepping off the career ladder: exploring the impact of
career shocks on women's career decisions in the UK 80
Angela Stephanie Mazzetti
PART IV MBA CAREERS ACROSS THE GLOBE
8 Economic structural changes and subjective career
success of MBAs in India 96
Vivek G. Nair and Leena Chatterjee
9 How an MBA contributes to the unfolding of careers:
a comparative analysis 110
Elizabeth Houldsworth, Chris Brewster and Richard McBain
PART V BREAKING AND RE-ENTRY
10 Women's careers: starting a new chapter post career break 124
Pavni Kaushiva and Chetan Joshi
11 Can we release the brake on the career re-entry of
mothers? A UK perspective 136
Anna Katharina Bader and John Blenkinsopp
PART VI ACADEMIC CAREERS
12 The changing nature of academic careers in management
education in India 150
Ravishankar Venkata Kommu and Amit Dhiman
13 The changing nature of academic careers in management
education in Western societies 162
Yehuda Baruch
PART VII CAREERS IN IT
14 Flying high in the turbulent skies: managing careers in
the Indian IT industry 177
Gunjan Tomer and Pawan Budhwar
15 Risk allocation, employer dependence and the welfare
state: an investigation of IT workers in the US and Canada 191
Sara Haviland and Jennifer Craft Morgan
PART VIII OPTING OUT OR STAYING IN
16 Integrating care work for sustainable careers of women:
an Indian perspective 207
Tania Saritova Rath and Mousumi Padhi
17 Leaning in: why some women are challenging the
opt-out model 220
Margie J. Elley-Brown
Index 233
