Dear colleagues,
Please find enclosed a call for papers concerning the track entitled “Cooperation in the career field” in the frame of the next annual EURAM Conference.
EURAM 16th Annual Conference – Paris, June 1-4, 2016
http://www.euram-online.org/annual-conference-2016.html
Call for papers: Cooperation in the field of careers?
SIG 14 – Track sponsored by the 2016 conference committee
Track chairs:
Loic Cadin (ESCP Europe, France)
Jean-Denis Culié (EM Normandie, France)
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay (University of Québec, Canada)
The general theme of manageable cooperation chosen by Euram for the 2016 conference invites us to question cooperation arrangements in the field of careers. What can we consider to be cooperation in the field of careers? What changes can we see in cooperation regarding careers?
For a long time, career counseling has been centered on cooperation of an expert and a subject in search of solutions and prescriptions. The expert knew and the subject had a need for guidance. Then the field of cooperation has evolved, so that the expert prescribing an approach to a subject who is now the leading player in the development of their project. However, over the last few years, peer coaching systems have emerged (e.g. Parker, Hall & Kram, 2008). Peers are no longer guidance experts but alter egos listening to subjective career reports with effective listening skills. Such Devices such as the intelligent career card sort like ICCS (Parker, 2006) propose to each participant to play in turn: the actor reflecting on their career, the facilitator of someone else’s reflection on their career, and the scribe writing the words of the actor’s reflection.
A network of former emergency humanitarian and development specialists was formed in France (Résonances Humanitaires) to bring support one another in developing their professional careers. This example illustrates the concept of Career Communities forged by career research (Parker, Arthur & Inkson, 2004). Career Communities are defined as self-organizing member-defined social structures through which (individuals) draw career support.
The same authors have developed a categorization of 10 Career Communities, based upon dimensions such as company, industry, occupation or values.
Tams & Arthur (2011) observed the effects of re-development of career capital (of three ways of Knowing) by participants in professional groups whose purpose is not career counseling. We could also mention the move from individual mentoring to collective mentoring (Allen, 2010)
So the question of cooperation in career issues call for the enduring redefinition of: game players (and their status), protocols, contexts of labor markets and organizations, financial and legal contexts. All of these appear to be evolving in response to the 2016 Euram conference theme. For example, recent developments in social networks are a potential form of career cooperation and employment. The collaborative economy could also be observed in terms of career cooperation.
The Topic is an opportunity to make a theoretical and empirical review on the conditions for cooperation in the field of careers. We invite contributions at all levels: individual, professional communities, intra or inter-organizational, sectorial, regional, national or transnational, amongst others.
References:
Allen, T. D. (2010). The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach. New York: Blackwell.
Parker, P., Hall, D. T., & Kram, K. E. (2008). Peer coaching: A Relational Process for Accelerating Career Learning. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7, 487-503.
Parker, P., Arthur, B. A., & Inkson, K. (2004). Career communities: a preliminary exploration of member-defined career support structures. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 25, 489-514.
Parker, P., Hall, D. T., & Kram, K. E. (2008). Peer coaching: A Relational Process for Accelerating Career Learning. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 7, 487-503.
Tams, S., & Arthur, B. A. (2011). Career Communities: Examining Learning through the Culture-as-Practice Lens. 7th International Critical Management Studies Conference, July 11-13. Naples.
Deadline for paper submission: January 12, 2016 (2 pm Belgian time)