Table of Contents

Provisional Contents:
1: Maury Peiperl and Michael Arthur: Topics for Conversation
Career Themes Old and New
Part I: Career Theory: Where do we go from here?
2: Hugh Gunz, Martin Evans, Mike Jalland: Boundaries in a 'Boundaryless' World
3: Jose Luis Alvarez: Theories of Managerial Action and their Impact on the Conceptualization of Managerial Careers
4: Nigel Nicholson: Motivation-Selection-Connection
An Evolutionary Model of Career Development
5: Richard E. Boyatzis and David Kolb: Performance, Learning, and Development as Modes of Growth and Adaptation throughout our Lives and Careers
6: Polly Parker and Michael Arthur: Careers, Organizing, and Community
Part II: Knowledge Workers: Professionals in the post-corporate age
7: Tim Morris: Promotion Policies and Knowledge Bases in the Professional Service Firm
8: Candace Jones and Benyamin Lichtenstein: Careers as Strategy in Professional Services
Evidence from Architects
9: Susan Eaton and Lotte Bailyn: Career as Life Path
Tracing Work and Life Strategies of Professionals in Firms of the Future
Part III: Work and Non-Work in Boundaryless Careers
10: Judi Marshall: Examining Facets of Women Managers' Career Stories
11: Jeanne Brett, Victoria Medvec, and Linda Stroh: The Overworked American Manager
12: Maury Peiperl and Brittany Jones: Workaholics and Overworkers
Productivity or Pathology?
13: Lynda Gratton and Veronica Hope Hailey: Making the Rhetoric of New Careers a Reality for Employees
Part IV: Careers and Cultures for a Global World of Work
14: Miriam Erez: Career Development and the Cultural Context
15: Loic Cadin, Anne-Francoise Bailly, and Veronique de Saint-Giniez: An Empirical Test of Boundaryless Careers in the French Context
16: Toshihiro Kanai, Hiroshi Fujii, and Hiroya Hirakimoto: The Impacts of Mentorship upon Middle Managers' Psychological Empowerment and their Leadership Behaviour
Empirical Analyses of Direct and Indirect Impacts
17: Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones: Culture, Community, and Career
An Exploration of Concepts
18: Maury Peiperl and Michael Arthur: The Conversations Continue
Observations and Trends (Conclusion)

About the Author

Maury A. Peiperl is Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Careers Research Initiative at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Michael B. Arthur is Professor of Management at the Sawyer School of Management, Suffolk University, Boston, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Rob Goffee is Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Director of the Innovation
Exchange at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School. Tim Morris is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the Centre for Organisational Research, London Business School,
and leader of research projects on the management of change and the management of knowledge in professional service firms.

Reviews

`this timely study of the current thinking and research on careers is welcome ... it provides a useful study of changes which are taking place in the relation between employees and employing organisations.'
Aslib Book Guide, Vol.65, Aug. 2000.
`A book that is thoroughly researched and well integrated.'
Tom Barry, People Management, 13/4/00.
"For those responsible for careers advice and human resources development, this book provides a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of careers and career management in the new, uncertain, and flexible world of employment. A compelling mix of academic analysis and practitioner experience." Vicky Wright, Group Managing Director, Hay Group