Career Anchors and Values Final Anu

8/6/2019 Career Anchors and Values Final Anu

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Presented By-Anoop(813)

Ashlesha (758)

Chetana (843)

CAREER ANCHORS AND VALUES


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` A Career Anchor is a combination of perceived

areas of competence, motives, and values relating to

professional work choices.

` They help you to define exactly what 'turns you on'about work and so make it easier for you to decide

what you want, or don't want, from your job or

career.


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When you consider all kinds of people, it is very

clear that not everyone has the same ambitions or

motivations in work.

Some people are very content to have a quiet,uneventful job, while others thrive on constant

change and excitement.

In short, we are all different, and our motivators are

an internal barometer of who we are and what wewant.


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` Edgar Schein at MIT has identified eight themes and

has shown that people will have prioritized

preferences for these.

` Edgar Scheins (1975) model of career anchorsevolved out of a longitudinal study of about 44 Sloan

Graduates covered over a period of over one decade.

` People tend to stay anchored in one area and their

career will echo this in many ways.


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1) Technical/Functional Competence

Competence in some technical or functional areas

Seeks chance to apply specialist expertise

Happy when permitted or challenged in these areas

Continue developing those skills

Not interested in general management jobs as they

will have to leave their areasEg:- Computer programmers, specialist engineers,

technical specialists

Dr.Edgar Schein 8 types of CAREER

ANCHORS


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Manage cross functions at a high level

Seek prestige, power, high remuneration

Want to be responsible and accountable for total

resultsTechnical/functional necessary learning experience

Ambition generalist jobs

No interested in a high managerial level in a function

Eg: - Administration, Division heads, Zonal heads etc

2.General Managerial Competence


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Define work in his/her own way

Wants freedom to define work

Jobs that allow flexibility

Cannot tolerate rules, restrictions

Turn down opportunity for promotions or

advancement to retain autonomy

Eg:- Consulting, Free lancing, Independent work

3.Autonomy / Independence


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` Most important employment security/ tenure of job

` Financial security (pension and retirement plans)

` Sometimes willing to trade personal loyalty

` not concerned with content of work

` Build entire self image around management of security

and stability

Eg:- Government jobs

4.Security / Stability


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` Dreams of running and owning business

` Organization/ enterprise built on their own abilities

` Willing to take risks / overcome obstacles

` Prove to the world

` May work for others initially

` Want their enterprise to be financially successful

` All successful businessmen who started out on their

own

5.Entrepreneural Creativity


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` Service-oriented people are driven by how they can helpother people more than using their talents

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Pursue works that achieves something of value.

` Solving environment problems, harmony among people,underprivileged, working for a social cause

` Eg: - Social workers, human rights activists,environmental activists etc.


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` Thrive on novelty, variety and difficulty

` Find solutions for unsolvable problems

` Win over tough opponents

` To do the impossible` People in challenging environments

` Eg: - successful sportspersons


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` Those who are focused first on lifestyle look at

their whole pattern of living

` Rather than balance work and life, they are more

likely to integrate it.

` They may even take long periods of time off workin which to indulge in passions such as travelling.


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Linear progress through series of jobs that

increase in authority and responsibility

Steady-state/expert committed to a field or

specialty; field-related expertise Spiral move across disciplines from one field to

a related one; builds on old skills but also requires

new skills

Transitory frequent unrelated job changes


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Career Anchors and Values Final Anu