Conceptualising the family-friendly career : the contribution of career theories and a systems approach/ created by Audrey Collin

By:

Collin, Audrey [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: British journal of guidance and counselling ; Volume34, number 3London : Routledge, 2006Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

03069885

Subject(s):

Women -- Careers -- Systems approach

LOC classification:

LB1027.5 BRI

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Abstract: Mainstream theories of career have been charged with a lack of ‘critical, multidisciplinary, gendered, and contextualised work’. This suggests that they would not readily be able to encompass the notion of the family-friendly career. This paper contextualises their shortcomings, notes some responses to them over time, and identifies some recent theorising that seems more likely to be able to contribute to ‘joined-up thinking’ on career and family-friendly issues. It then proposes the value of a systems approach and soft systems thinking to conceptualising a (family-friendly) career, and introduces the concept of a ‘family career’.

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Mainstream theories of career have been charged with a lack of ‘critical, multidisciplinary, gendered, and contextualised work’. This suggests that they would not readily be able to encompass the notion of the family-friendly career. This paper contextualises their shortcomings, notes some responses to them over time, and identifies some recent theorising that seems more likely to be able to contribute to ‘joined-up thinking’ on career and family-friendly issues. It then proposes the value of a systems approach and soft systems thinking to conceptualising a (family-friendly) career, and introduces the concept of a ‘family career’.

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