Using Information Technology Complete Edition or Work Careers

Using Information Technology Complete Edition

Author: Brian K Williams

Using Information Technology, 5/e covers the fundamental computing concepts that are part of the digital age, including software, hardware, data, people, and procedures. The text centers on educating today's technology consumer, using themes of ethics, the Internet, and communications to demonstrate how the changing world of technology influences our lives and the decisions we make.

Interesting textbook: Retail Loss Prevention Officer or Development Economics

Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective

Author: Daniel C C Feldman

Work Careers brings together a stellar panel of experts from the fields of industrial and organizational psychology, counseling and clinical psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, and human resource management. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of how an individual's career unfolds from early childhood through retirement. Based on the most recent findings and current research, the volume also focuses on changes in the societal and organizational contexts of career development and reveals how context shapes and constrains individual career decisions.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	The Contributors
Pt. 1	Foundations of Career Development
1	Stability in the Midst of Change: A Developmental Perspective on the Study of Careers	3
2	More Than the Big Five: Personality and Careers	27
3	Skill Acquisition and Person-Environment Fit	63
Pt. 2	Career Development Across the Life Span
4	When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It: Career Indecision and Vocational Choices of Teenagers and Young Adults	93
5	The School-to-Work Transition	126
6	The Establishment Years: A Dependence Perspective	159
7	Career Development in Midcareer	186
8	Career Issues Facing Older Workers	214
Pt. 3	The Changing Context of Career Development
9	Public Policy and the Changing Legal Context of Career Development	245
10	The Changing Organizational Context of Careers	274
11	International Careers as Repositories of Knowledge: A New Look at Expatriation	294
Pt. 4	Directions for Industrial/Organizational Practice and Research
12	Organizational Assistance in Career Development	323
13	Advancing Research on Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective on Theory Building and Empirical Research	346
	Name Index	373
	Subject Index	385