Occupational Development Flashcards
What are the microsystems for work?
- Occupational development
- Occupational role transitions
- Retirement
Career Construction Theory
- Building a career is through your own actions; characteristics and social context influence
- Life Narrative
- Hollands Idea
Personality type theory
Pick career based on your traits and interests - Social Cognition Career Theory
You pick a career as a result of self-efficacy
Career choice - Holland
- Investigative, social, realistic, artistic, conventional and enterprising
- Interpersonal settings and their associated lifestyles
Career choice - Social Cognitive Career Theory
- Influenced by their own interests
- Self-efficacy, outcome expectations, interests and choice goals
- Used as a framework to help people identify and select occupations
- Believe to be successful is important
What is a developmental coach and mentor?
Developmental Coach
- Support to focus goals, motivations and aspirations
- Achieve focus and to apply them appropriately
- People who already has experience
Mentor
- A person who helps the new guys in learning on-the-job, in their present role and help prepare for future career roles
- Avoid trouble
- Seen as investment, developing new talents
- Quality matters
What are the common reasons for people to change their occupations?
- Job satisfaction
Accumulation of experience, changing context, current stage of career development - The amount of stress one is feeling
- Getting fired
- Of your own volition
Who are more or less likely to change occupation?
- Alienation
- Burn out
- Passion for your job
Valued activities - Involuntary quitting your job; heightened stress, financial pressures, loss of self-esteem and possible changes in family relationships
What are the two types of passion for work?
Obsessive
- You have to work, seen as a negative thing, makes it more difficult to invest in other activities
- Risk for conflict and burnout
Harmonious
- Being able to choose if you want to engage or not
- Linked to satisfaction
Alienation
Their work feels meaningless and their effort are not recognized, abandoned from their bosses
Burnout
A profound depletion of a persons energy and motivation, there is no positive reason to do work and feeling of being used
-Loss of control and/or not being value seem to be causes
Why is burnout both a physical and psychological health risk?
- It has several effects on the brain
- Less ability to regulate negative emotions
- Weakened connection between amygdala, ACC and PFC
- Gives poor judgment and more emotional outbursts
- Risk for psychopathology (depression)
- Physical, emotional and mental exhaustion; affects self-esteem
When is career change associated with psychological adjustment and when is it not?
- Loosing your job because of laid of is associated with negative well-being
- Changing your job as a result of your own action is associated with positive well being;
Sense of control
Not stressed by job-seeking
What are some common stereotypes about older workers?
- Older people cant learn anything new
- Heterogeneity, retirement shouldn’t be about age
- Physical limitation and health limitations
- Technological incompetence
- Resistance to change
What are reasons to keep older people at work?
- No childcare, less tardiness and absence
- Fewer accidents on the job
- Occupational expertise and institutional knowledge
- More satisfied with the work conditions, thus increases production
- Mentors for new employees
- Can learn new skills, it just takes longer
- Focus on their ability and desire to work
What are some reasons to retire?
- National laws
Being forced to go due to your age, taking your autonomy away - Financial Needs
Where do you live, can you afford to? - Your own choice
- Health concerns
