The Boundaryless Career: A New Employment Principle for a New Organizational Era

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Michael B. Arthur, Denise M. Rousseau
Oxford University Press, 26 lug 2001 - 408 pagine
Organizational restructuring and global, hypercompetition have revolutionized careers and destroyed the traditional blueprint for advancement and career success. This book details the new forms work takes in the new organizational era where worker mobility has become critical to the well-being and learning of both people and firms. The Boundaryless Career approaches the new principle of the boundaryless career in five directions. The first section helps the reader explore the nature of boundaryless careers by highlighting some of their essential elements. The second section turns to competitive advantage and the role of workers' knowledge. The thirs section concentrates on the role of the social structure in the organizing of work. The fourth section turns to focus on how boundaryless careers affect personal development and growth. The fifth section addresses the demands boundaryless careers create for schools, communities, and other social institutions. Introductory and concluding chapters by the editors offer frameworks for conceptualizing careers now and in the future. The Boundaryless Career provides a conceptual map of new career and employment forms to the prospective benefit of people making career choices, companies re-crafting human resource practices, schools and universities re-considering their roles, and policy-makers concerned with regional or national competitiveness. It will be essential reading for scholars in a range of social science disciplines spanning themes of economics, management, education, organizational behavior, and the psychology and sociology of work. It will also appeal broadly to free thinkers interested in the changing nature of careers and employment as both people and firms tackle the realities of increasingly open markets and global competition.
 

Sommario

Exploring the Nature of Boundaryless Careers
21
Organizing as We Work
40
The Case of the Film Industry
58
Careers Change as Organizations Learn
76
The Competitive Advantages of Knowledge Based
95
A CompetencyBased Perspective
116
Building Identity and Cumulative Knowledge
132
Considerations for Boundaryless
150
The Rhetoric of BoundarylessOr How the Newly Empowered Managerial
218
Personal Development and Growth along the Boundaryless
235
Reconnecting Work and Family
256
Career Implications
282
Social Institutions in the New Organizational Era
295
Arming Disarming
314
Occupations Organizations and Boundaryless Careers
331
Tournaments and Other Institutional Signals
350

The Social Structure of Boundaryless Careers
169
Boundaryless Careers and Social Capital
187
Lessons from Chinese Family Businesses
201
A Lexicon for the New Organizational Era
370
Index
383
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