Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work - Hardcover

by Edgar H. Schein (Author), John Van Maanen (Author), Peter A. Schein (Author)

Take back control of your career journey

In the newly revised edition of Career Anchors: Finding Stability and Opportunity in the Changing Nature of Work, a team of world-renowned management and culture experts delivers a uniquely insightful exploration of your own career values and work relationships as they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook in combination with an online self-assessment offers critical and accessible self-diagnostic exercises along with information about the changing career scene and new descriptions of the eight career anchor categories.

This book will help you:

• Explore how your work choices now relate to your family and self-development
• Explore how the rapidly changing world of work and business emphasizes globalization, competition, technology, organizational instability, uncertainty, and shifting values
• Engage in a powerful relationship mapping process that helps you to consider how your work and career choices now interact with your relationships with family, friends, and community
• Review the career anchor values and examine how these values have changed, so you can make better choices of what, when, where, and how to work as you look ahead

This newest edition of Career Anchors is a can't-miss resource written to help you analyze, assess, and understand the past, present, and future of your own career. It belongs in the libraries of early-career--as well as established--professionals looking to take back control over their work trajectories.

Front Jacket

In the newly revised Fifth Edition of Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work, a team of renowned organizational culture experts delivers a one-of-a-kind guide book, complete with a free assessment accessible online, designed to help you gain new insights into your career values and how they relate to your past and future choices.

You'll explore the eight career anchors categories as you learn to navigate the rapidly changing world of business, and discover updated information on globalization, heightened competition, new technologies, greater organizational instability and uncertainty, and shifting societal values. You'll also learn how all these factors can influence career trajectories and career anchors.

Career Anchors Reimagined offers a look at how the world of work is changing and what these changes mean for each of the career anchors discussed within. It also includes developmental activities that participants can use as next steps in their career development.

An invaluable and up-to-date approach to identifying your own unique approach to balancing career, family, and your personal life, Career Anchors Reimagined will help you analyze, assess, and understand your particular career anchor and help you chart the future of your career development.

Back Jacket

Explore, analyze, and understand your workplace skills, motives, values, and more as you plan the future of your career

Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work offers readers an opportunity to uncover new insights into their career values and how they relate to their past and future choices, both within and outside of the office. This easy-to-use career guide--complete with a unique access code that offers access to a free, online profile--provides information about career development and updated and revised descriptions of the eight career anchors categories.

Readers will find expanded information on globalization, heightened competition, new technologies, increased organizational instability and uncertainty, and changing societal values, all of which have a dramatic impact on career paths and career anchors.

The book also includes a relationship mapping process with suggested action steps, a career diagnosis that highlights the reader's past experiences and individual preferences, and a guide to the developmental activities readers can use as next steps in their career development.

Career Anchors Reimagined is the ideal resource to help readers analyze, assess, and understand their individual career anchors and to plan the future of their career trajectories.

Author Biography

EDGAR H. SCHEIN is Professor Emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He's widely regarded as the founder of the field of organizational culture and has authored the defining resource on the topic.

JOHN VAN MAANEN is the Erwin H. Schell Emeritus Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an ethnographer of organizations ranging in type from police organizations to educational institutions to business firms.

PETER A. SCHEIN is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of OCLI.org. He offers counsel to senior management on organizational development challenges facing private and public sector entities worldwide.