Satisfying Career – Considerations about Subjective Sense of Career
Satisfying Career – Considerations about Subjective Sense of Career
Author(s): Agnieszka Cybal-MichalskaSubject(s): Individual Psychology, Social psychology and group interaction, Developmental Psychology, Management and complex organizations
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: satisfying career; subjective sense of career; individual’s activity; proactivity; professional success;
Summary/Abstract: The subjective dimension of career development involves and connects career planning with private models of human life, professional aspirations and with the way they perceive their experiences. It should be noted here that Theory of Work Adjustment (R.V. Dawis) is the theoretical orientation, which attempts to explain satisfaction with career development by reference to the dynamics of the relationship between the subject and the environment. , is the theory of employ ability.The theory is rooted in the tradition of individual differences in the professional behavior. This perspective links the career choice and development, seen as a permanent process, with the cycles of work adaptation, the source of which lies in the feeling of dissatisfaction.Unmet need of satisfaction is seen as a state of insatiability. Individuals aim at meeting this need through adaptation, which means seeking professional organizations and communities to meet their expectations(in the context of quality of meeting needs). The result of the search for determinants of job satisfaction is to draw attention to the following relationship, namely: commitment to a career increases the level of satisfaction resulting from career development.
Journal: Kultura - Społeczeństwo - Edukacja
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 167-177
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English