Includes bibliographical references and index.

Topics for conversation: career themes old and new / Maury A. Peiperl and Michael B. Arthur -- Career boundaries in a 'boundaryless' world / Hugh Gunz, Martin Evans, and Michael Jalland -- Motivation-selection-connection: an evolutionary model of career development / Nigel Nicholson -- Performance, learning, and development as modes of growth and adaptation throughout our lives and careers / Richard E. Boyatzis and David A. Kolb -- Careers, organizing, and community / Polly Parker and Michael B. Arthur -- Theories of managerial action and their impact on the conceptualization of executive careers / José Luis Alvarez -- Promotion policies and knowledge bases in the professional service firm / Timothy Morris -- The 'architecture' of careers: how career competencies reveal firm dominant logic in professional services / Candace Jones and Benyamin M. Bergmann Lichtenstein -- Career as life path: tracing work and life strategies of biotech professionals / Susan C. Eaton and Lotte Bailyn -- Living lives of change: examining facets of women managers' career stories / Judi Marshall -- Exploring boundaryless careers in the French context / Loïc Cadin [and others] -- Career, community, and social architecture: an exploration of concepts / Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones -- Continuing the conversation about career theory and practice / Michael B. Arthur and Maury A. Peiperl.

What is the future of careers in the new millennium? The era of training, one organization, one profession, and one job has gone. Here leading international experts on careers - psychologists, HR experts, and sociologists - look at issues such as selection, motivation, career paths, women's careers, and international comparison, etc. Ideal for MBA courses and HR executive training.