Career Anchors: The Changing Nature of Careers Self Assessment [Paperback]

The Career Anchors instrument is designed to help clients identify their anchors and to think about how their values relate to their career choices. While this model has stood the test of time, there are many changing factors in the market that require a fresh look at the content. This new edition of a classic career development tool provides readers with updated coverage and data that reflects the current world of work and looks at how people think of their careers and the qualities they haven't considered or simply take for granted.

Introduction 1

Career Anchors Self-Assessment 3

Scoring Instructions 7

Description of Career Anchor Categories 9

Next Steps and Choices 19

EDGAR H. SCHEIN is Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management.?His consulting work focuses on organizational culture, organization development, process consultation, and career dynamics, and among his past and current clients are major corporations both in the U.S. and overseas such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Ciba-Geigy, Apple, Citibank, General Foods, Procter & Gamble, ICI, Saab Combitech, Steinbergs, Alcoa, Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Exxon, Shell, AMOCO, Con Edison, and the Economic Development Board of Singapore.
Ed Schein has been a prolific researcher, writer, teacher and consultant. Besides his numerous articles in professional journals he has authored fourteen books. He has received many honors and awards for his writing and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Academy of Management.

JOHN VAN MAANEN works within the fields of organization behavior and theory, and is an ethnographer of organizations ranging from police departments to educational institutions to a variety of business firms. In addition, he has worked with numerous public andls8