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1. Course Description:

The objective of the course is to assist the students in gaining a better understanding of themselves as well as identifying their potential skills and knowledge with respect to career management. This course is designed to help the student to understand the lifelong, sequential process of determining self and career identity through career exploration.The nature of success, the succession ladder, and searching for meaning in one’s life depends on the person’s career choice .In order to give the students a sound understanding of career management & their impact on holistic development, this course is planned.This course is especially helpful for students who are striving to learn more about who they are, which direction their life should take, and to learn more about others around them. They may appreciate how the changing nature of work has both advantages and disadvantages for some people’s career.

2. Student Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

· better manage their own careers, in general, and prepare for the job search process,

in particular;

3. Required Text Books and Reference book:

Text Books

Career Management by Greenhaus,Callanan and Godshalk,Sage Publication

Reference Book

1.Personal Development for Life and Work by Wallace –Cengage Publication

2.Career Management &Work life Integration by Harrington &Hall published by Sage.

4.33#Tentative Session Plan

Session Number	Topics/Activities	Reading/Case/Assignment list, etc.
1	The Changing Landscape of Work and Careers The Need to Understand Career Management	Chapt-1 (Text Book) Case Study 1-Richard Information Systems Executive
2&3	Career Contexts & Stages of Development Contemporary perspectives on Careers: The Boundaryless Career Stage –based perspective on Careers	Activity1: Finding evidence of Careers as Inheritance and/or Careers as Cycles in a career story of a famous Corporate Leader Chapt-2(Text Book)
3&4	A Model of Career Management · Career goal and Awareness · Career Strategy · Career Appraisal	Activity2 :Lifestyle Representation, Developing Life Themes and instructions for self-assessment Chapt-3(Text Book)
4&5	Career Choice and Career Exploration · Matching your career and personality · Self-Exploration · Informal Self-Exploration · Integrated approaches to Self- Exploration	Chapt-4(Text Book) Activity3 :Application of Edgar Schein’s Career Anchors in student’s self-exploration and theme development
6 &7&8	Stages of Career Development · Occupational and Organizational Choice · Organizational Actions During Entry Process · Individual Actions During Entry Process	Chapt-6(Text Book) Activity4: The Identity Exercise (life roles / sub-identities) Case Study2:Natalie the Retail Manger
9&10	The Early Career Stage : · Organizational Actions During Establishment phase and Achievement phase · Individual Actions During Establishment phase and Achievement phase	Chapt-7(Text Book) Activity 5:Measuring Effectiveness of Psychological contract
11,12& 13	The Middle and Late Career Stages · Confronting the Midlife Transition · Remaining ,Productive,Growth,Maintenance &Stagnation · Organizational Actions During MidCareer	Chapt-8(Text Book) Activity 6: Complete the Holland’s Vocational Choices
14 &15	Contemporary Issues in Career Management · Managing Diversity · Type A Behaviour as a source of stress · Employment Bias as a source of stress · Technology-induced stress · Tapping Potential Old Workers	Chapt-9&11(Text Book) Activity 7: Social Network assessment exercise will be conducted.You are to submit your Self-Reflection (1 page) on how you feel you did and again how well it reflects your current social capital.
16&17	Entrepreneurial Career · Choosing Entrepreneurial Career · Encouraging Entrepreneurial Career Passion and Emotion at Entrepreneurial Career	Chapt-12(Text Book) Case Study: Dave the Aspiring Executive
18	Closing Thoughts on Career Management; Looking to the Future and Ongoing Development	Chapt-14 (Text book) Prepare Career Autobiography for yourself
19&20	Assignment Presentations	By Groups

5. Evaluation
· Quiz: 20%
· Presentation (Group): 20%
· Live Project: 20%
· End Term Examination :30%
· Class Involvement :10%

End term Examination: Examination would be conducted at the end of the term which would cover the entire course.
Class Involvement: Attendance along with level of participation during group work including academic deliberations during the class would be a determinant for this evaluation segment.

The academic integrity would be followed as per the norms laid down in the Student Handbook of the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

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