Career Endeavour: Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition

Pursuing a Cross-Cultural Life Transition
Neuauflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4621-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Cross-Cultural Management

This book is concerned with trainee professionals and their search for meaning through the determined and creative pursuit of a cross-cultural career transition. Adopting a qualitative research framework, the book describes the career experience of professional trainees from non-Western cultures who have chosen to develop their careers in the West. It examines the process of the initial consideration of change, the exploring of options (including whether to emigrate) and how the many issues and challenges of adapting to the socio-cultural environment of the host country were met. In addition it examines how the process provided the trainee professionals involved with greater self-understanding and how as a result they were able to further consider their future career plans. The book then highlights the implications of these experiences for theory, research and practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Charles P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Conceptualizing life career interaction; Constructing narrative inquiry; Individual narratives; The general narrative of NWC counsellor trainees; Understanding a cross-cultural life career transition; References; Appendix; About the author; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Charles P. Chen is Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology and Canada Research Chair at University of Toronto, Canada.