Career Transition

Career Transition

Introduction:

In this literary review, I will research career transition and how it has impacted the workforce and management. I will present three research articles that I feel are important in understanding how career transition impacts adults who are transitioning from one career to another. As an HRM, one of the biggest parts of our job will be to recruit new talent. Traditional careers are falling to the wayside and emerging is a type of employee who has, for lack of a better term, been around the block once or twice. I am going to focus on first the way careers are changing, then I am going to look at the military and how they prepare their retirees, many of whom are still in their 30's, for retirement, and finally, I will look at career transition and what role HR plays.

My first article is Beyond the Career Mystique: "Time in," "Time out," and "Second Acts" by Phyllis Moen. The central thesis of her argument is that Americans confront a major mismatch between outdated career and retirement regimes and the exigencies of (1) family responsibilities, and (2) the risks and uncertainties associated with a competitive, global, and information-based economy. Unlike privileged workers in the 1950s, members of America's 21st-century workforce find it increasingly rare to have either a full-time homemaker or a secure, "lifetime" job. This mismatch challenges both scholars and policy makers to revisit, research, and rewrite the disparate scripts constituting the rules of the career game. The mid-20th-century bargain of trading a lifetime of paid work for a lifetime of income security-never a reality except for a group of middle-class office workers and unionized production workers in the post war economic boom of the 1950s-is probably gone forever. (Moen)

My second article is. This study examines the concerns of retiring Marine Corps noncommissioned officers (NCOs) as they experience the adult career transition of retirement from military service and transition to the civilian workplace. Analysis of focus group transcripts reveal a range of concerns related to the transition factors cited in Schlossberg's Transition Theory as the 4 S's: situation, self, support, strategy. This study provides insight on the issues and challenges Marine Corps noncommissioned officers (NCOs) face upon retirement based on the following articulated themes: cultural, community, social and psychological concerns. This paper suggests that programming offered to facilitate transition should also address psychological and social concerns which may improve the quality and outcomes of transition to a new role in civilian life. (Johnston, Fletcher, Ginn, & Stein)

My third article is. This paper seeks to review the current theory in areas relevant to industry-to-academia career transitions, and to outline a theory that targets this category of employee directly. They sought to outline the first step toward a limited theory explaining the special needs and motivations of industry-to-academia career transitioners. Throughout this paper, the hybrid academic institution, consisting of a traditional core and a nontraditional periphery, received special emphasis. The resulting propositions suggest the need to undertake further empirical work to ascertain the values, motivations, and job satisfaction of transitioned and traditional faculty members in all major entities of a hybrid academic structure. Researching this area might be particularly beneficial in light of recent changes in the norms of both regional and specialized accreditation.

This definition will consider the following concepts: (1) proteanism, or the protean approach to career transitions; (2) transition types; and (3) human values. The following discussion will consider each of these facets of the industry-to-academia transition in order to craft a working definition with the Journal of Human Resource Education Vol. 1, No. 28 1, Summer 2007, 23-37 specificity appropriate to the limited empirical range of the industry-to-academia transition as a phenomenon worthy of study, in order to advance testable propositions. (Bandow, Minsky, & Steven)

I will explain the basic entitlement afforded employees under the FMLA. I will introduce what responsibilities the individual employee has in regard to their FMLA entitlements and the employer's responsibilities to the employer and in regard to compliance to the FMLA. I will also introduce the possible legal consequences of not complying with the act.

1.) What are the basic entitlements afforded employees under the FMLA?

Under the FMLA of 1993, employees are entitled to a total