Dark Sides of Careers
What It Means When We Don’t Succeed at Work

By (author) Nikos Bozionelos

ISBN13: 9781529226133

Imprint: Bristol University Press

Publisher: Bristol University Press

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Published: 01/09/2024

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While career success stories are studied extensively, the negative aspects of them often get overlooked. Combining scholarly, practitioner and policy-making perspectives, this book explores the darker sides of careers and examines the implications for organizations, societies, economies and individuals themselves. This is a valuable contribution to debates around futures of work.
1. What Are Careers? 2. How Do We Typically Understand Careers? 3. Careers as Rarities, and Dashed Hopes 4. Careers as Perpetuators of Social Injustice and Economic Stagnation 5. Who Gets Ahead? 6. Careers as Modern Servitude 7. Career as a Means of Dis-Continuation of Oneself 8. Will There Be “Dark Sides” in the Careers of the Future? 9. Is There an Alternative without “Dark Sides”?
  • Occupational & industrial psychology
  • Personnel & human resources management
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
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