Career Creativity

Explorations in the Remaking of Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924872-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 565 g

Careers are changing-a simple linear development is now rare. People need to be creative about their careers, and society needs to generate creativity from its work arrangements. Many believe that the so-called creative industries (media, high-tech, IT, etc.) offer a model for likely working patterns and career development in the future.

In this book leading experts from ten countries look at the dual meaning of Career Creativity to explore both the creativity in people's career behavior and the concomitant creative development of the institutions of work and society.

The book's four sections address the observation of creative careers, the enactment of careers within the social structure, the shape of careers in what have traditionally been seen as creative industries, and the role that careers play in the creation of industries.

The chapters cover a diverse range of issues and perspectives such as knowledge-intensive workers, paths to creativity, the career metaphor, transformation and adversity in creative lives, the pursuit of international assignments, and the consequences of career mobility. They draw from a number of different employment sectors including high-technology, craft work, film-making, country music, biotechnology, and open-source software.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peiperl, Maury

Goffee, Rob

Arthur, Michael B.

Anand, N.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: N. Anand, Maury Peiperl, and Michael Arthur: Introducing Career Creativity

- Part I: Creative Careers Observed

- 2: Kerr Inkson: Thinking Creatively about Careers: The Use of Metaphor

- 3: Birgitta Södergren: Paths to Creativity for Knowledge-Intensive Workers

- 4: Hugh P. Gunz, Martin G. Evans, and R. Michael Jalland: Chalk Lines, Open Borders, Glass Walls, and Frontiers: Careers and Creativity

- 5: Michelle L. Buck, Mary Dean Lee, and Shelley M. MacDermid: Designing Creative Careers and Creative Lives through Reduced-Load Work Arrangements

- Part II: Creative Careers Enacted

- 6: Gray Poehnell and Norman Amundson: CareerCraft: Engaging with, Energizing, and Empowering Career Creativity

- 7: Polly Parker: Creativity in Contract Workers' Careers

- 8: Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld: Career Resilience and the Mastery of Career Adversity

- 9: Douglas T. Hall, Guorong Zhu, and Aimin Yan: Career Creativity as Protean Identity

- Part III: Careers in Creative Industries

- 10: José Luis Alvarez and Silviya Svejenova: Symbiotic Careers in Movie Making: Pedro and Agustin Almodovar

- 11: Candace Jones: Signaling Expertise: How Signals Shape Careers in Creative Industries

- 12: Ellen A. Ensher, Susan E. Murphy, and Sherry E. Sullivan: Boundaryless Careers in Entertainment: Executive Women's Experiences

- Part IV: Careers Creating Industries

- 13: Richard A. Peterson and N. Anand: How Chaotic Careers Create Orderly Fields

- 14: Monica C. Higgins: Careers Creating Industries: Some Early Evidence from the Biotechnology Industry

- 15: Robert J. DeFillippi and Michael B. Arthur: Career Creativity to Industry Influence: A Bluepring for the Knowledge Economy?

- 16: Michael Arthur, Maury Peiperl, and N. Anand: Staying Creative about Careers

Über Autor(innen)

Maury A. Peiperl is Associate Dean and Director of the Careers Research Initiative at London Business School. He has taught, written, and consulted for over fifteen years on four continents in the areas of executive careers, human resource management, performance, and change, and sits on the boards of several companies. He is also a director of a consulting firm specializing in performance, change, communications, and careers issues.

Michael B. Arthur is Professor of Management at the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston. He has written and researched widely on the subject of careers, and his research focuses on alternative ways to link individual career theory and collective action.

N. Anand is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at London Business School. Anand's research interests include the constitution and emergence of industrial fields, the organization of the commercial music industry, knowledge management in professional service firms, and behaviour in financial services firms.