Changing careers and trajectories: how individuals cope with organisational change and restructuring
Valenduc, Gérard ; Vendramin, Patricia ; Pedaci, Marcello ; Piersanti, Mariangelo
Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid, Leuven
HIVA - KU Leuven - Leuven
2009
76 p.
career break ; career development ; enterprise restructuring ; human resources management ; occupational sociology
Personnel management
English
Bibliogr.
978-90-8836-012-1
12.05-55589
"This thematic report focuses on changes in individual careers, trajectories on the labour market and occupational identities. It analyses the driving forces behind these changes and considers wider societal trends concerning the changing meaning of work. The conclusions highlight key trends in careers and trajectories: the widening of the spectrum of career models; the multiplication of fragmented trajectories; the plurality of models of identity formation at work; the new balance between internal and external labour markets; the individualisation of human resource management; the decline of traditional forms of collective involvement and the emergence of new forms of social bonding at work; and finally the increasing importance of the expressive dimension in the relation to work."
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