The Career Management Challenge: Balancing Individual and Organizational Needs Book

In this stimulating, highly readable book, Peter Herriot looks at the individual and strategic organizational dimensions of career management. In particular, Herriot argues that organizations will increasingly need to manage a complex individual-organizational `balancing act' as an essential ingredient of their human resource strategies. The author shows how key current and future trends such as technological change, intensifying competition and internationalization will inevitably lead organizations to make ever-increasing demands on employees. In exchange, however, individual employees will also come to expect more from their organizationsHerriot discusses the balances that will need to be struck between individual and organizational expectations. He examines the human resource management implications of achieving satisfactory balance, both in organizational cultures and values and in the various career systems that will need to be introduced. These include a range of mechanisms to support employee self-development, ways of encouraging and rewarding innovation and loyalty, explicit career management processes and a wide variety of employment arrangements geared to individual needs. A key concept is that of the psychological career contract.Throughout the book, the author relates his discussion to the issues raised for individuals as well as organizations.Innovative and thought provoking, The Career Management Challenge will be essential reading for managers and for students of human resource management, personnel management, occupational psychology and organizational behaviour.Read More