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Labour-Market Flexibility and Individual Careers - A Comparative Study (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Labour-Market Flexibility and Individual Careers - A Comparative Study (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 13
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With labour markets across the world and even in social democratic
Europe in a state of unprecedented flux, this exhaustive study
addresses the problem of how to balance job market demands,
personal career interests and private life becomes a central issue
for millions of employees. So how do modern work and employment
arrangements restructure individual careers and what is required of
individuals in order to manage career transitions successfully over
time? This is one of very few in-depth empirical studies to analyze
how labour market trends, organisational change and the subjective
work orientations of individuals interact. The author's detailed
assessment is based on a comparison of the structural contexts,
work orientations and employment histories of nurses and ICT
technicians in Germany and the UK. These two core service
occupations, as well as the national contexts of the two European
nations, have quite different working environments and vocational
traditions. Nursing is an institutionalized semi-profession with
clear criteria of qualification and career continuity, while
information and communication technology (ICT) is a new, evolving
field with varied skill backgrounds and high job mobility. To
arrive at an understanding of how individual career trajectories
are changing, this book closely examines the interplay of labour
market demands, employees' work and career orientations and the
development of their skills. It records the ways in which employees
adapt to increased labour market flexibility, which, on the one
hand, induces discontinuities of careers, employment and work, and
on the other, generates new skill requirements and learning
expectations, as well as unforeseen opportunities.
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