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Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives

Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives

by Dr . Kerr Inkson (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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Synopsis

Understanding Careers: The Metaphors of Working Lives uses a unique framework of nine archetypal metaphors to encapsulate the field of career studies. Using an easy-to-read style, author Kerr Inkson examines key concepts, illustrating them with over 50 authentic career cases, to build an excellent bridge between theory and real life.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 344
 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 17 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0761929509
ISBN 13: 9780761929505

Media Reviews
A unique frame work to understand the field of career studies. -- The Financial Express
It comes as a pleasant breath of realism and common-sense together to pick up Kerr Inkson's book. Understanding Careers plays several roles- helping us to understand metaphors in careers just as Morgan did in organizations, meditating and consolidating a wealth of qualitative organizational and career-related research (chapters have excellent lists of further reading), providing most timely advice on career counseling (good for specialists and an underplayed field), and offering numerous case-studies (of real and plausible people) for students to examine. A thoughtful and topical introduction to its field, bringing together a wide range of related topics and research, clear for students and convincing for people further on )even pragmatic skeptics will get drawn in) and a timely read for all employees. -- Stuart Hannabuss
Author Bio
Kerr Inkson is Professor of Management at the University of Otago, Visiting Professor of Management at Victoria University of Wellington, and Honorary Research Fellow at Massey University, all in New Zealand. He has a PhD from the University of Otago. Since commencing his academic work in the 1960s Kerr has had a distinguished career in management studies and organizational behavior, and has worked at a number of business schools in the New Zealand, the UK, and the USA. Since the early 1990s his research has focused on careers, and he published The New Careers (co-authored by Michael B Arthur and Judith K Pringle) with Sage in 1999. Other recent books include Management: New Zealand Perspectives (third edition, Prentice-Hall, 2002, co-authored with Darl Kolb) and Cultural Intelligence (Berrett-Koehler, 2004, co-authored with David C. Thomas). He is author of several other books and over 100 refereed journal articles and book chapters, many of them on career themes. In 2005-6 he was Chair of the Careers Division, Academy of Management. Website: http://www.commerce.otago.ac.nz/mgmt/staff/kinkson.htm Email: kinkson@business.otago.ac.nz.