Second Careers

Shmulik Grimland, Eran Vigoda-Gadot, Yehuda Baruch

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Abstract

Contemporary careers and labor markets are dynamic and less stable than in the past. Employees are more self-reliant and innovative in order to advance their own career paths. People tend to employ adaptive schemes in order to move from job to job or from occupation to occupation. Adaptation is indicated by success, satisfaction, and development. Currently, the aging segment of the labor market is an important part of the global workforce. Older workers tend to be motivated less by career progression and more by intrinsic rewards. Their professional vitality is associated positively with career and life satisfaction and negatively with staffing turnover intentions in work. The vitality function is an inverted U shape that peaks around a person's fifties. Decision makers, managers, and especially human resources managers need to be ready to manage workers who leave and enter an organizations at various career stages. At the society level, training and education should be fitted to various age levels.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging
EditorsS.K. Whitbourne
Place of PublicationChichester, UK
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Pages1283-1287
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9781118521373
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Dec 2015

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