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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Career Development

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 115-0358/02
Abbreviation RK
Course title Career Development
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Iva Kirovová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Career
• Meaning
• Main factors influencing a career
• Traditional career approaches
Transition to postindustrialism
• Main characteristics
• Knowledge economy
• Changes of organizational and work design
Career in postindustrial context
• Job redesign
• Employers´ requirements
• Contemporary career approaches
New career
• Protean career
• Portfolio career
• Problems
Career in organizational context
• Changes of organizational approaches
• HRD, HRM
• BSC, Skandia model
• Organizational career management
The changing psychological contract
• Differences
• Breach of psychological contracts
• Career plateau
• Career planning
Individual career planning
• Context
• Stages
• Decision making
Individual career management
• Context
• Strategies
• CPD
• LLL
Job search
• Transactions
• Methods
• CV and motivation letters
Career motivation
• Organizational context
• Career motivation typologies
Career models
• Criteria and context
Successful career
• Criteria
• Career duality
• Contextual and individual factors
Career problems
• Types of problems
• Coping

Literature

ARNOLD, John et al. Work Psychology: Understanding Human Behaviour in the Workplace. 7th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2020. ISBN 978-1-292-26943-6 .
BROWN, D.S. a LENT, R.W. Career Development and Counseling: Putting Theory and Research to Work. 3rd ed. New Jersey: Wiley. 2020. ISBN 978-1-119-58035-5 .
MULLINS, Laurie J. Organizational Behaviour in the Workplace. 12th ed. Harlow: Pearson, 2019. ISBN 978-1-299-24548-5 .

Advised literature

GRIFFIN, R.W.; PHILLIPS, J.M. a GULLY, S.M. Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations. 12th ed. Boston: Cengage, 2021. ISBN 978-1305501393.
PINA e CUNHA, Miguel et al. Positive Organizational Behaviour: A Reflective Approach. New York: Routledge, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-29309-0.
SCHEIN, E.H.; MAANEN, J.V. a SCHEIN, P.A. Career Anchors Reimagined: Finding Direction and Opportunity in the Changing World of Work. New Jersey: Wiley. 2023. ISBN 978-1-119-89948-8 .