Career Choice and Development

Lebo, Harrington, and Tillman (1995) studied the work values of high school students from six countries and concluded that the v ...

professional, technical, and service occupations and under-repre- sented in sales, manufacturing, and laborer job classification ...

and tenure will be based on the ability of the decision maker to make these estimates. There is evidence that African American a ...

that a higher proportion of African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics felt that they needed assistance in finding inform ...

which workers, particularly women, participate in the work role is directly related to their success (Tharenou & Conroy, 199 ...

Sue, 1990), are over-represented in these same occupations, as are European Americans (U.S. Department of Labor, 1995). However, ...

Proposition 8 The primary bases for job satisfaction for people with an individu- alism social value, in order of importance, wi ...

In a related study, Yu and Wu (1985) investigated the impact of unemployment and stress among unemployed Chinese Americans. The ...

determinant of occupational choice. A personal data form, the Ca- reer Decisions Report, the six General Occupational Theme scal ...

on the role of values in occupational choice should explore how cultural values interact with work values to influence both occu ...

have decreased over this same period (Bovasso & Jacobs, 1991). The implications of this shift for career counselors are not ...

when working with clients. Once the cultural values and other in- formation such as language proficiency are determined, assessm ...

description of the perfect career decision maker because it applies only to clients who have an independent social value. Moreov ...

not measure activity or time orientation values. Therefore, an in- depth exploration (clinical, if you prefer) of the client’s m ...

Identifying the client’s activity orientation will have to be done clinically, perhaps using open-ended leads such as “When I am ...

retaining traditional values in other life roles. The second approach involves advocating for the client in the workplace to enh ...

tors that K and his parents have adopted cultural values that are more in keeping with white, Western, European views than the t ...

reer guidance, the idea of attending college may not have occurred to K until a friend brought it up. Therefore, I suspect that ...

There is one interesting aspect of E’s profile that bears investiga- tion early in the process of career counseling. She claims ...

THE ROLE OF WORK VALUES AND CULTURAL VALUES 499 EXHIBIT11.1. A Values-Based Career Counseling Model Stage 1 IDENTIFY THE DECISIO ...