Career Development International: Volume 9 Issue 1

Individuals, organizations and careers: a relational perspective

Olympia Kyriakidou, Mustafa Ozbilgin

The papers in this special edition were presented at the symposium, “Current developments in human resource management and organizational behaviour”, organized at the University…

Linking pre‐ and post‐merger identities through the concept of career

Lynne Millward, Olympia Kyriakidou

This paper looks at the challenges to identity at both individual and organizational levels of analysis, posed specifically by merger‐induced change. Merger‐induced change can…

Cynicism and disengagement among devalued employee groups: the need to ASPIRe

Anne T. O'Brien, S. Alexander Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Louise Humphrey, Lucy O'Sullivan, Tom Postmes, Rachael Eggins, Katherine J. Reynolds

Despite a renewed interest in processes which help organizations to harness social capital, it is apparent that practical efforts to achieve this rarely focus on employees who are…

Partnership‐based approaches to learning in the context of restructuring: Case studies from the European steel and metal sectors

Emma Wallis, Mark Stuart

The European steel and metal sectors have experienced processes of radical restructuring. Employers within the sector increasingly require employees to have a broader and deeper…

Transforming careers:from linear to multidirectional career paths: Organizational and individual perspectives

Yehuda Baruch

Within the dynamic nature of labour markets, career systems have witnessed major changes in recent decades. This paper presents several career perspectives, to manifest a trend in…

Union influence on career development – bringing in gender and ethnicity

Harriet Bradley, Geraldine Healy, Nupur Mukherjee

The influence of trade unions and the cross‐cutting of gender and ethnicity on career development is a neglected area of study. By drawing on research in four UK trade unions…

Changing Conversations in Organizations: A Complexity Approach to Change

Mine Karatas‐Özkan

Note from the publisher

John Peters