Browsing by Author "Briscoe, Jon"

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    Chapter 1: Careers: what they are and how to look at them
    (Edgar Elgar Publishing, 2023-04-21) Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Briscoe, Jon; Dickmann, Michael; Hall, Douglas T.; Parry, Emma
    Careers are central to people’s lives, but difficult to describe and understand. Building on the notion that everyone participating in the workforce has a career, this chapter presents the major building blocks of careers along three dimensions, i.e. ontic, spatial, and temporal. The ontic perspective on careers centres on various conditions of the persons having a career. This includes issues such as their gender, age, job, career satisfaction, career stage - in short, everything that matters and helps to characterize the person’s condition. The spatial perspective acknowledges that careers unfold not in a vacuum, but in a defined social and geographical space. This space is structured by external and internal boundaries, populated by other individuals, groups, and organizations and governed by formal and informal rules that individuals may or may not be aware of. The temporal perspective points towards time as a crucial aspect underlying careers. In terms of career outcomes, the chapter presents seven facets of career success in three groups - growth, design for life, and material output - that individuals use across the globe: entrepreneurship, learning and development, work-life-balance, positive impact, positive work relationships, financial security, and financial success.
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    Chapter 2: One, two, many ways – a hands-on guide to how to navigate this book
    (Edgar Elgar Publishing, 2023-04-21) Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Briscoe, Jon; Dickmann, Michael; Hall, Douglas T.; Parry, Emma
    This book contains career stories in context from all the populated continents in the world. It demonstrates how to look at careers from various perspectives. The stories are grouped in to 6 key themes: personal characteristic, stability and change, boundaries and borders, gender, generations and organizations. the chapters commence with a point of departure that sets the scene, constitutes a dilemma or problem or the like before contextualizing the situation. This usually is done by a brief introduction to the country and its specifics with regard to the careers and the core of the emerging story. Reflections on the story point towards core issues and related theoretical discourses. ‘Stop and Think’ sections with a few questions intended to stimulate further thoughts about the story close the chapter and are geared to produce relevant take-aways for the reader.
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    Laying the foundations of international careers research
    (Wiley, 2020-05-15) Mayrhofer, Wolfgang; Smale, Adam; Briscoe, Jon; Dickmann, Michael; Parry, Emma
    As an editorial to the special issue ‘new avenues in international careers research’ this paper discusses the roots of the international careers research stream, which sits at the intersection between career studies, HRM and international management. In order to support future studies in this emerging area of enquiry, we then attempt to lay down the foundations of a research agenda based around what we see as the three core areas of interest: contextualised careers research, comparative careers research, and careers research in internationally operating organisations. After providing some suggestions for the kinds of theoretical, methodological and research collaboration tools that will be required to build on these foundations, we introduce the five empirical papers that comprise this special issue.