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CHAPTER 9 LATE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT CAREER DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 9.1 LIFE ROLES E. 1. This exercise will help you determine which life roles are most important to you (Super’s Role Salience) What percent of your time in the last month […]

CASE 1.12 MADOFF SECURITIES Synopsis A childhood friend summed up the driving force in Bernie Madoff’s life: fiBernie wanted to be rich.” As a youngster growing up in New York City, Bernie realized that Wall Street was the Unfortunately, Bernie […]

CHAPTER 9 LATE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT CAREER DEVELOPMENT Super’s two major concepts – life role and life stage (values are also important) ROLE SALIENCE People have differences in terms of the importance of work to them. Importance of work can […]

CASE 1.11 NEW CENTURY FINANCIAL CORPORATION Synopsis New Century Financial Corporation’s bankruptcy filing in April 2007 was the initial incident in a series of events that would eventually plunge the U.S. and global economies into full-fledged panics. declining. Suddenly, subprime […]

CHAPTER 9 LATE ADOLESCENT AND ADULT CAREER DEVELOPMENT With the entire class or in small groups, have students describe roles which were important to them in high school. How has the salience of these roles changed? Have students examine their […]

CASE 1.10 DHB INDUSTRIES, INC. Synopsis David Brooks founded DHB Industries in the early 1990s. Throughout its existence, the principal operating unit of DHB was its Point Blank subsidiary that manufactured bullet-resistant operating results from 2003 through 2005 had been […]

CHAPTER 8 ADOLESCENT CAREER DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE 8.1 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN ADOLESCENCE (SUPER) E. 1. Describe an example of when interests in activities or occupations affected your career choices (perhaps around the age of 11). (Development of Interests) _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ […]

CASE 1.9 ZZZZ BEST COMPANY, INC. Synopsis Barry Minkow founded ZZZZ Best Company, a carpet cleaning concern, in 1982 at the age of 16. Within a matter of months, Minkow was engaging in several fraudulent schemes to raise working capital […]

CHAPTER 8 ADOLESCENT CAREER DEVELOPMENT Educational commitments to career choices are made during adolescence. This chapter describes how cognitive and emotional factors bear on career decisions of adolescents. FACTORS INFLUENCING ADOLESCENT CAREER DEVELOPMENT Piaget’s stages of cognitive development Formal thought, […]

CHAPTER 8 ADOLESCENT CAREER DEVELOPMENT In small groups, have students describe their career choices at age 9 or 10 (4th or 5th grade), 13 or 14 (8th or 9th grade), and 16-17 (11th or 12th grade). Discuss in the group […]

CASE 1.8 CRAZY EDDIE, INC. Synopsis Eddie Antar opened his first retail consumer electronics store in 1969 near Coney Island in New York City. By 1987, Antar’s firm, Crazy Eddie, Inc., was a public company with annual sales exceeding $350 […]

CHAPTER 7 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD EXERCISE 7.1 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD (SUPER) E. 1. When you were in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade what were you curious about? (Curiosity) _________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ E. 3. What did you would like […]

CASE 1.7 LINCOLN SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION Synopsis The collapse of Lincoln Savings and Loan Association in 1989 was one of the most expensive and controversial savings and loan failures in U.S. history. Charles Keating, Jr., is seemingly the perfect […]

CHAPTER 7 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD Career-related issues that affect child until age of 12. SUPER’S MODEL OF THE CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN Curiosity: • Desire for knowledge or something new or unusual • Most basic of all needs and […]

CASE 1.6 NEXTCARD, INC. Synopsis In November 2001, Arthur Andersen & Co. employees in that firm’s Houston office shredded certain Enron audit workpapers during the midst of a federal investigation of the large energy tended to be high credit risks, […]

CASE 1.5 THE LESLIE FAY COMPANIES Synopsis Fred Pomerantz founded Leslie Fay in the mid-1940s and built the company into one of the leading firms in the highly competitive women’s apparel industry over the next four decades. Fred’s forced to […]

PART II LIFE-SPAN THEORY CHAPTER 7 CAREER DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDHOOD Have the class write down their own career choices prior to age eight and at ten or eleven. Discuss what was important in these choices. Use Figure 7-1, page 172, […]

CHAPTER 6 MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE THEORY EXERCISE 6.1 HOW DO YOU MAKE DECISIONS? Part One How Do You View Events and Circumstances in Your Life? From the two boxes below, circle those characteristics that best fit you. Box 1 Box 2 […]

CASE 1.4 HEALTH MANAGEMENT, INC. Synopsis This case profiles an imaginative accounting fraud orchestrated by two top executives of Health Management, Inc. (HMI), a New York-based pharmaceuticals distributor. The HMI fraud is audit firm. The plaintiff attorneys attempted to prove […]

CHAPTER 6 MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE THEORY Not designed to be a theory of career development, but a theory of personality that focuses on decision-making styles. The two most basic concepts are perception-judgment and extraversion-introversion. PERCEIVING AND JUDGING Two ways of PERCEIVING […]

CASE 1.3 JUST FOR FEET, INC. Synopsis Harold Ruttenberg emigrated to the United States from South Africa in 1976. In his early thirties at the time and the father of three small children, Ruttenberg wanted to escape the political and […]

SAMPLE ESSAY EXAMINATION QUESTIONS APPLYING CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY TO COUNSELING-6E 1. List two important aspects of a theory. (ch.1) 2. List three propositions that describe Parsons’s approach to career selection. (ch. 2) 5. In what way is general trait and […]

CASE 1.2 LEHMAN BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC. Synopsis Wall Street was stunned in September 2008 when this iconic investment banking firm filed for bankruptcy. Two years later, there was a similar reaction within the investment community when Lehman’s court-appointed bankruptcy examiner […]

CHAPTER 6 MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE THEORY If students are unfamiliar with Myers-Briggs typology, they may have difficulty with the abstract nature of the concepts. It may be helpful to divide them into dyads or small groups where they discuss examples of […]

CASE 1.1 ENRON CORPORATION Synopsis Arthur Edward Andersen built his firm, Arthur Andersen & Company, into one of the largest and most respected accounting firms in the world through his reputation for honesty and integrity. window dress its financial statements. […]

CHAPTER 5 HOLLAND’S THEORY OF TYPES EXERCISE 5.1 PERSONALITY TYPE AND OCCUPATIONS Please rank the six boxes of activities and the six boxes of occupations that you like best. Rank each group in each column from 1 to 6 on […]

CHAPTER 5 HOLLAND’S THEORY OF TYPES Career choice and career adjustment represents an extension of a person’s personality. Stereotypes – people’s impressions and generalizations about work. Holland uses this to assess personality. Holland assigns both people and work environments to […]

CHAPTER 5 HOLLAND’S THEORY OF TYPES To demonstrate Holland’s six types, write each letter on a separate piece of paper. Put the six Holland letters in six different places in the classroom. Ask the class members to select their most […]

CHAPTER 4 WORK ADJUSTMENT THEORY EXERCISE 4.1 WORK NEEDS AND JOBS E. 1. Rank the five needs that are most important to you in working on a job. Assign the number (1) to the most important and the number (2) […]

CHAPTER 4: WORK ADJUSTMENT THEORY Most applicable to adults who wish to make career choices or are experiencing work adjustment problems. Consists of 18 propositions and corollaries which predict work adjustment. Work Adjustment – a continuous and dynamic process by […]

CHAPTER 4 WORK ADJUSTMENT THEORY Describe a few of your current work values or needs as listed in Table 4-1 on page 98. In the groups, have students explain how these values or needs have been met in current or […]

CHAPTER 3 OCCUPATIONS: INFORMATION AND THEORY EXERCISE 3.1 SOCIOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES ON YOUR CAREER DEVELOPMENT E. 1. When you were in high school, what were the reasons that you worked part-time or did volunteer work? (If you list “to […]

CHAPTER 3 OCCUPATIONS: INFORMATION AND THEORY Labor market information about the U.S. labor market is plentiful and describes many aspects of employment and unemployment. Models or theories have been developed that point out inequities or obstacles in the labor market […]

1 CHAPTER 3 OCCUPATIONS: INFORMATION AND THEORY Is the labor market a market that is fair to all individuals? What affect does a poor economy have on an individual’s career choice? How has unemployment and underemployment affected the lives of […]

1 CHAPTER 2 TRAIT AND FACTOR THEORY EXERCISE 2.1 ABILITIES AND INTERESTS Please rank the types of work that are listed below. You need only to rank your top 5, but can rank more if you wish. Assign a (1) […]

1 CHAPTER 2 TRAIT AND FACTOR THEORY Trait – a characteristic of an individual that can be measured through assessment. Factor – a characteristic required for successful job performance. Trait and factor – the assessment of characteristics of the person […]

PART I TRAIT AND TYPE THEORIES CHAPTER 2 TRAIT AND FACTOR THEORY What are the advantages and disadvantages of tests and inventories versus interview data in career counseling? What is the impact of achievement, interests, values, and personality on your […]

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION EXERCISE 1.1 REFLECTIONS ON WORK AND CAREER COUNSELING E. 1a. What was the worst job that you have ever had? __________________________________________________________ E. 2. Think of someone you know who lost his or her job unexpectedly. What effect […]

1 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Career – how individuals see themselves in relation to what they do; individual’s work and leisure that take place over his/her life span. The lifetime pursuit of an individual. Career Choice – applies to decisions that […]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR APPLYING CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY TO COUNSELING-5E This section contains some discussion questions that you may wish to use either with large or small groups of students in your classes. Usually, I include only the questions, and have […]

Lecture Notes Lussier, Human Resource Management, Third Edition 16–1 Identify and discuss the reasons for increasing business globalization and the stages through which companies move from local to global operations. 16–2 Identify and discuss the five dimensions of Hofstede’s model […]

Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Sample Answers Chapter 16: Global Issues for Human Resource Managers Answers to Applying the Concept Exercises Applying the Concept 16-1: Stages in Corporate Globalization Place the letter of the state of corporate […]

Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Discussion Questions Chapter 16: Global Issues for Human Resource Managers 1. The world appears to be moving more toward protectionist trade policies. While companies may retrench some jobs back to their home […]

Case 16-1 Summary Sand by Saya is a New York based brand that sells flip-flops in nine countries and online. The business employs two full-time employees and two part-time employees. The CEO, Sayaka Fukuda, directs every aspect of the business, […]

Lecture Notes Lussier, Human Resource Management, Third Edition SAGE Publishing, 2018 Lecture Notes Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following: 15–2 Briefly discuss each of […]

Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Sample Answers Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility Answers to Applying the Concept Exercises Applying the Concept 15-1: Level of Moral Development Place the letter of the level of moral […]

Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Discussion Questions Chapter 15: Organizational Ethics, Sustainability, and Social Responsibility 1. Several common ethical approaches, or guidelines, exist to help you make ethical choices including the golden rule, the four-way test, and […]

Case 15-1 Summary In 2016, the average CEO made $13.1 million a year, 347 times more than the average U.S. worker, who made $37,642. The AFL-CIO noted this as a growing income equality to show the slow U.S. wage growth […]

Lecture Notes Lussier, Human Resource Management, Third Edition SAGE Publishing, 2018 Lecture Notes Chapter 14: Workplace Safety, Health, and Security Learning Objectives After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following: 14–2 Briefly discuss EAPs, EWPs, and […]

Lussier, Human Resources Management 3e SAGE Publishing, 2019 Sample Answers Chapter 14: Workplace Safety, Health, and Security Answers to Applying the Concept Exercises Applying the Concept 14-1: Employer Rights and Responsibilities Under OSHA Respond yes or no to each question […]