(BQ) Part 2 book "Fundamentals of human resource management" has contents: Managing careers, establishing the performance management system, establishing rewards and pay plans, employee benefits, ensuring a safe and healthy work environment, understanding labor relations and collective bargaining. | 8/8/09 6:49 PM Page 208 Chapter 9 Managing Careers Learning Outcomes After reading this chapter, you will be able to 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 208 Explain who is responsible for managing careers. Describe the term career. Discuss the focus of careers for both organizations and individuals. Describe how career development and employee development differ. Explain why career development is valuable to organizations. Identify the five traditional stages involved in a career. List the Holland vocational preferences. Describe the implications of personality typologies and jobs. Identify several suggestions that you can use to manage your career more effectively. 8/8/09 6:49 PM Page 209 he ad read like an EEO nightmare, advertising “Job Openings for mothers of schoolchildren” and backed it up by offering part-time hours and summers off. Rather than being a current example of gender and age discrimination, it was quite the opposite. It was an ad for the Principal Financial Group from 1966 indicating an early interest in equal career opportunities for women. Recently retired Principal Financial Group CEO Barry Griswell stated, “It’s been important to me to know that women have equal pay, equal access— all of the things that men have.” His efforts have been so successful that the company boasts recognition as one of the Best Places to Work by the National Association of Female Executives, Working Mother magazine, Fortune, Latina Style magazine, and AARP. How does the company manage to earn so many awards? They do it by developing programs that support employees through the more vulnerable points in the employee’s career cycle, hoping that by helping employees to manage their career, they’ll be more likely to stay. Examples include: T ■ ■ ■ Eight hours of paid time off to volunteer at a nonprofit agency of the employee’s choice, including their church or child’s school. “No
