Dear member of the Careers Division,
Apology for cross-posting.
We are very happy to let you know that the British Journal of Management has released our recent paper "A Fresh Look at the Dark Side of Contemporary Careers: Toward a Realistic Discourse"
You can download it for free until 26th November, via the following link:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8551.12107/epdf
In this paper we argue that the changing nature of careers and of career management requires a comprehensive perspective to highlight the characteristics and nature of careers in their entirety, whereas most published work predominantly addresses their positive aspects, leaving the darker dynamics almost untouched.
We claim that contemporary career experiences may often be quite dark and include a number of undesired consequences. By linking selected career constructs and notions of organizational dark sides, such as job related misconduct, we advance a more balanced framework, offering realistic career conceptualization, highlighting the case for a number of contemporary career theories and concepts.
We hope you will find this paper relevant for your work.
Yours
Yehuda & Yoav
Dr Yehuda Baruch, FAcSS, FBAM
Professor of Management
Director of Research
Southampton Business School
University of Southampton
Associate Editor, Human Resource Management (US)
VP for Research, EURAM