Personnel Issues

2011 ◽  
pp. 184-204
Author(s):  
P. Gottschalk
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
It Management ◽  
It Services ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Potential Problems ◽  
Staff Person

Many of the potential problems with outsourcing can be avoided by carefully deciding which IT services can appropriately be contracted out and which cannot. Other problems, however, can only be avoided by an effective implementation of that decision and one such is the potential staff problem when transferring IT management and operation to an external body. Staff, however, often find the growth potential, greater variety, and greater business focus of some outsourcing jobs very appealing, and working for an outsourcing vendor is actually popular with some staff once the transition has been made. To an IT staff person, the vendor organization can offer wide and interesting career paths and almost a return to the traditionally sized IT section with all its scope for specialism. This variety of career path is unlikely to be offered by the slimmed-down IT provision internal to most organizations. The vendor’s core business is IT and hence resources flow into new developments and advances in a way that can give interesting and rewarding career opportunities. Instead of IT staff being treated as a necessary overhead, they become the organization’s critical asset. Not all outsourcing jobs are equally appealing, however, and some roles can be very unpopular (Robson, 1997).

Children Living in Poverty: Their Perception of Career Opportunities

1998 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Weinger
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Projective Techniques ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Job Opportunities ◽  
Poor Children

Growing up in poverty often diminishes a child's opportunity to pursue a rewarding career path. This qualitative study explored whether poor children are aware that their wealthier peers' chances for success may be greater than their own. Projective techniques employing photographs of two houses representing poor and middle-income families were used to interview twenty-four children between the ages of five and thirteen years, divided equally between white and African Americans. These respondents perceived that society provides better future job opportunities to nonpoor children while limiting those of the poor. Although respondents suggested that they and their friends could be exceptions to these limitations, indications of their beginning feelings of hopelessness were revealed. The author proposes strategies to assist in strengthening poor children's belief in themselves and their future.

Career Opportunities in Power Generation

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott T. Cloyd
Keyword(s):  
Power Generation ◽  
Steam Turbine ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Job Opportunities

The Power Generation Industry has a wide variety of challenging career opportunities for engineers. This paper provides an overview of the types of job opportunities that are currently available within the fossil fuel segment of the industry with a focus on gas and steam turbine based power plants. The challenges within these jobs and ability to alter career paths as individual interests’ change are also described.

scholarly journals Colleagues as friends

2020 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 2033-2042 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur N Popper
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Stimulation Of

Abstract Collaboration is integral to most scientific research today, and it has certainly been important in my career and for my career path. However, not all collaborations are “equal”. Most, in fact, are short term or transient, with collaborators working on one project and then moving on to other projects and perhaps other collaborations. There are, however, a few collaborations, such as the three I describe here, that are long term and that not only resulted in a large number of collaborative projects but that also strongly influenced career paths. Indeed, these three collaborations resulted in all of us undertaking new paths that we were not likely to have taken alone or without the stimulation of working with someone we know well and have learned to trust.

scholarly journals Get that next job—how to break out of the postdoc trap

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (21) ◽  
pp. 3700-3703
Author(s):  
Yvonne Klaue
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Career Development ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Postdoctoral Researchers

In the past, the majority of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers were focused on careers in academia. Times have changed, and many are now considering careers outside of academia and are aware of numerous exciting career opportunities in industry and nonprofit and government organizations. However, although it is easy to find resources about academic careers, the same cannot be said for positions outside the ivory tower. Here, on the basis of my experience as a scientist and as someone who works with graduate students and postdocs to help them enter nonacademic career paths, I provide a perspective on career development and how to find a job.

scholarly journals Career Paths of German Business Administration Academics

2009 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinke Röbken
Keyword(s):  
Career Paths ◽  
High Mobility ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Business Administration ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Age Cohorts ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Business Professors

The question of how the career path for professors should be structured is a central issue in the current debate on reforming higher education in Germany. In order to substantiate current discussions on promotion and faculty development this study presents empirical data on the biographies of 699 professors of business administration at German universities. The internet-based data collection provides descriptive analyses on the pathways to the professiorate, including age, sex, educational background, mobility and social networks of business professors. The results suggest that career opportunities for academics in business administration vary widely across different age cohorts. Business professors in Germany show a high mobility, and the ability to accumulate social capital differs significantly between male and female professors. The implications for policy makers and young academics are discussed.

Once is Not Enough: Former Special Educators Who Return to Teaching

1993 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith D. Singer
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
Teacher Supply ◽  
The Public ◽  
Return To Teaching

This research examines the career paths of 2,700 former special educators to see whether they returned to the public schools; the results are based on longitudinal data (13 years) on all special educators in Michigan public schools hired between 1972 and 1985. Analyses focus on teachers' decisions as they faced two key turning points—whether to reenter the schools, and if so, how long to stay during this second spell. An estimated 34% of the former Michigan special educators reentered a Michigan classroom within 5 years of leaving, and an estimated 58% of these stayed for more than 7 years. I conclude that a return to teaching after a brief interruption may be a common career path, and the pool of former special educators is a viable source of teacher supply.

Diverse Careers in Community Psychology

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Psychology Training ◽  
Community Psychologist ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Career Survey

The goal of Diverse Careers in Community Psychology is to (1) highlight the diversity of career options for someone with community psychology training; (2) provide details about the different types of careers (e.g., tasks involved, benefits and challenges, salary range, and so on); and (3) list the steps one can take to develop skills and position oneself for such a career. This text provides a better understanding of the diverse career options available for people who train in community psychology (CP), and how the CP competencies are put into practice across the full spectrum of job titles and career paths that a community psychologist might follow. The book includes 23 chapters authored by 30 different community psychologists with various backgrounds, interests, and areas of expertise, who provide examples of what it is like to work in their settings. The book also includes a summary of a first-of-its-kind career survey of over four hundred individuals in the field. It is our hope that this text will help current, prospective, and former students in community psychology and related fields, as well as professionals interested in expanding or changing their careers, to find an ideal career path.

Trust in Government and Government Effectiveness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia M. Horne
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Truth Commissions ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Government Effectiveness ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Potential Problems

This chapter examines whether, when, and how lustration and truth commissions affected trust in government and government effectiveness. Lustration had a direct positive relationship with government effectiveness; more extensive lustration programs appeared to have a bigger positive impact on government effectiveness than more informal programs. However, with respect to trust in government, the lustration effects were largely indirect and temporally contingent. Only early lustration was clearly associated with trust in government. Later in the transition, reforms registered weaker effects on trust in government, if any. To illustrate further the dynamics associated with the timing of reforms, the chapter explores the case of Poland’s late reform programs, highlighting some of the potential problems with domestic politicization of late reform efforts. Poland’s programs illustrate that while the timing of reforms matters, effective implementation of lustration can happen early or late in the transition process.

scholarly journals Against boundarylessness: The liminal career of the flexible employee

Organization ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 917-935 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Budtz-Jørgensen ◽  
Christian Garmann Johnsen ◽  
Bent Meier Sørensen
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Work Roles ◽  
Organizational Boundaries ◽  
Social Domains ◽  
Boundaryless Career

This article extends the critique of the boundaryless career concept by focusing on how organizational members may experience boundaries as ambiguous within contemporary career development in organizations. As an alternative to the concept of the boundaryless career, we introduce that of the liminal career. We consider a liminal career as occurring when the normal career path within an organization becomes a state of ‘betwixt and between’, wherein distinctions between social domains and work roles become diffuse, indeterminate and difficult to comprehend. We engage with this concept in relation to three boundaries that remain central within career development: organizational boundaries establishing a distinction between that which is internal and external to the organization, hierarchical boundaries separating employees and managers, and functional boundaries demarcating different work domains. Using a case that illustrates how employees experience ambiguous organizational, hierarchical and functional boundaries, we argue that the concept of the liminal career captures the essence of situations in which there is a lack of clear categories, trajectories and schemes from which to structure career paths in organizations.

BREAKING GENDER STEREOTYPES: WOMEN AND WORK IN THE FILM THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Washington Mushore
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Women And Work ◽  
World Views ◽  
Feminist Film Theory ◽  
Feminist Film ◽  
Images Of Women

The aim of this article is to show that women are physically capable of performing (and free to perform) any task or work and pursue any career path in life. Guided by Amazon Feminist film theory, the article rejects the notion that work should be gendered. The argument made here is that if women are to be truly liberated, they must be at the centre of their own emancipation. They should be able to decide and pursue their dreams or career paths in life, without fear, without allowing men to decide for them what work they ought to do. In respect of world views, male frames usually exploit women by assigning subordinate roles or jobs to them. Furthermore, they discriminate against women based on the assumption or stereotype that they are passive, weak and physically helpless. To demonstrate the role films play in liberating or providing alternative images of women, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (2008), directed by Anthony Minghella, is used as an example.

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