Synopses & Reviews
Developed by Edgar Schein at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the
Career Anchors Participant Workbookis designed to help you 1) explore and better understand your workplace skills and competencies, career motives and values; 2) analyze your present job and possible future jobs through role and network analysis; and 3) rate yourself in relation to possible competencies and skills needed in present and future jobs.
Once you have completed the Career Anchors Self-Assessment,this workbook will guide you through the next steps in analyzing and understanding your career anchor. As you work through the pages, you will gain new insight into your career values and how they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook includes information about career development, a more complete description of the eight career anchors categories, and an interview section that helps you to analyze your career history. The workbook includes directions on how to create a personal career history, either by yourself in written form or with the help of another person. A completely new section, Job/Role Analysis and Planning, enables you to relate the career anchors to your current position and future jobs by providing an explanation and instructions for creating role maps.
The self-awareness created by the research-backed information and exercises in the Career Anchors Participant Workbookwill help you to understand what values are most important to you, making your future job decisions easier and more valid and your future workplace happiness and success more assured.
Synopsis
In many cases, people select a career for all the wrong reasons, and find their responses to the workplace are incompatible with their true values. This situation results in feelings of unrest and discontent and in lost productivity. To help people avoid these problems, the newly-revised Career Anchors is designed to help people uncover their real values and use them to make better career choices. This revised edition includes two new sections, "Major Stages of the Career" and "Career Movement, Progress, or Success." Instructions and other components have been revamped for clarification, the references have been updated, and the contents have been rearranged for more convenient usage in classes and workshops. Career Anchors can help you think through your career options and give you a clear understanding of:
* Your own orientations toward work
* Your motives
* Your values
* Your talents
The Career Anchors Instrument and Trainer's Manual provide a systematic way of exploring how you perceive yourself, based on your own experiences. The instrument is divided into three parts?the orientations inventory, the career anchor interview, and the conceptual material. Career Anchors will help people:
* Define the themes and patterns dominant in your life
* Understand your own approach to work and a career
* Provide reasons for choices
* Take steps to fulfill your own self-image
About the Author
'Edgar H. Scheinis Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of numerous books, including Career Dynamics, Process Consultation Revisited, Organizational Culture and Leadershipand The Corporate Culture Survival Guide. '
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Career Orientations Inventory.
Development of a Career Anchor.
Career Anchor Interview.
Practical Implications: What Should You Do Next?
Footnotes.
Further Reading.