1 Introduction to Career Dynamics in a Global World 1 Premarajan Raman Kadiyil, Anneleen Forrier and Michael B. Arthur
PART I SELF AND CAREER
2 An incongruence-driven approach to careers: insights
from Ayurveda Anupama Kondayya and Srinivas Ekkirala 13
3 Self-awareness in career development: meaning, importance and malleability Marijke Verbruggen 24
PART II SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A CAREER CHOICE
4 A field research of nascent social entrepreneurs’
intention formation Preeti Tiwari, Anil K. Bhat and Jyoti Tikoria 37
5 Individual factors in predicting and encouraging social
entrepreneurship as a career choice Mary Conway Dato-on, Sharmistha Banerjee and Yasmin Mesbah 51
PART III STEPPING OFF THE CAREER LADDER
6 Satisficing career choices of Indian women managers Sumita Datta and Snehal Shah 66
7 Stepping off the career ladder: exploring the impact of
career shocks on women’s career decisions in the UK Angela Stephanie Mazzetti 80
PART IV MBA CAREERS ACROSS THE GLOBE
8 Economic structural changes and subjective career
success of MBAs in India Vivek G. Nair and Leena Chatterjee 96
9 How an MBA contributes to the unfolding of careers:
a comparative analysis Elizabeth Houldsworth, Chris Brewster and Richard McBain 110
PART V BREAKING AND RE-ENTRY
10 Women’s careers: starting a new chapter post career break Pavni Kaushiva and Chetan Joshi 124
11 Can we release the brake on the career re-entry of
mothers? A UK perspective Anna Katharina Bader and John Blenkinsopp 136
PART VI ACADEMIC CAREERS
12 The changing nature of academic careers in management
education in India Ravishankar Venkata Kommu and Amit Dhiman 150
13 The changing nature of academic careers in management
education in Western societies Yehuda Baruch 162
PART VII CAREERS IN IT
14 Flying high in the turbulent skies: managing careers in
the Indian IT industry Gunjan Tomer and Pawan Budhwar 177
15 Risk allocation, employer dependence and the welfare
state: an investigation of IT workers in the US and Canada Sara Haviland and Jennifer Craft Morgan 191
PART VIII OPTING OUT OR STAYING IN
16 Integrating care work for sustainable careers of women:
an Indian perspective Tania Saritova Rath and Mousumi Padhi 207
17 Leaning in: why some women are challenging the
opt-out model Margie J. Elley-Brown
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"Career Dynamics in a Global World takes on a major question in the global research and practice of career development and adopts a distinctive approach in response. The authors address the question of how and to what extent a predominant influence of Western thinking about careers interferes with our understanding of careers in other parts of the world. The approach involves identifying career topics for further exploration, recruiting teams of Indian and Westerns scholars on each topic to share their insights, and laying out those insights to help both careers researchers and practitioners see their significance. As a result, in this remarkable collaboration the reader is invited to compare views on self- awareness and careers from traditional Indian Ayurvedic and alternative Western perspectives, alongside contrasting Indian and Western reports on women stepping off their career ladders, the motivation of social entrepreneurs, the careers of IT workers, MBA holders and management scholars and other topics. Career and cross-cultural researchers and career and HR practitioners will be fascinated by the comparative analysis of career dynamics"-- Provided by publisher.