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Career Development, Occupational Choice, and Organizational Culture: Societal Expectations, Constraints, and Embedded Practices

Career Development, Occupational Choice, and Organizational Culture: Societal Expectations, Constraints, and Embedded Practices
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Copyright: 2013
Pages: 30
Source title: Gendered Occupational Differences in Science, Engineering, and Technology Careers
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Julie Prescott (University of Central Lancashire, UK) and Jan Bogg (The University of Liverpool, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2107-7.ch006
ISBN13: 9781466621077
ISBN10: 1466621079
EISBN13: 9781466621084

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Abstract

This chapter aims to: discuss the concept of career motivation; outline the dominant theories for career development and occupational choice; debate how organisational culture can disadvantage women in the workplace and maintain gendered occupational segregation; identify how organisational culture, career motivation, organisational identity, and organisational commitment interlink; review how the interplay between the self, environment, and other external factors reinforces and perpetuates gendered occupational segregation; and discuss how women’s career choice is constrained by societal and cultural expectations, based on gender.

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