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Presented By-Anoop(813)
Ashlesha (758)
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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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