Career Anchors helps you explore and better understand your workplace skills and competencies, career motives, and values. Rather than a participant workbook, the fifth edition will be a trade book with a free assessment that’s accessible with a unique pin included in the book.

With this program, you will gain new insight into your career values and how they relate to your past and future choices. This easy-to-use workbook includes information about career development and updated descriptions of the eight career anchors categories:

• The rapidly changing world of business including more information on globalization, heightened competition, new technologies, greater organizational instability and uncertainty, and shifting societal values, all of which influence career trajectories and career anchors

• Updated descriptions of the career anchors

• A role mapping process that helps to consider the various external demands and pressures with suggested action steps.

• A work career and family/life priority grid that includes suggestions for how the work, family, and personal patterns identified can interact (for better or worse) with each of the eight career anchors

• An updated “looking ahead” section that begins with a comprehensive look at how the world of work is changing and what these changes may mean for each of the career anchors

• Developmental activities that participants can use as next steps in their career development

The fifth edition of Career Anchors will help you analyze, assess, and understand your particular career anchor to help you chart the future of your career development.

EDGAR H. SCHEIN is Professor Emeritus in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management. He’s widely regarded as the founder of the field of organizational culture and has authored the defining resource on the topic.

JOHN VAN MAANEN is the Erwin H. Schell Emeritus Professor of Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is an ethnographer of organizations ranging in type from police organizations to educational institutions to business firms.

PETER A. SCHEIN is the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of OCLI.org. He offers counsel to senior management on organizational development challenges facing private and public sector entities worldwide.

Acknowledgments vii

Preface ix

Introduction: Plan For This Book xv

Chapter 1 Reflections on the Changing Workplace 1

Chapter 2 Building a Relationship Map 11

Chapter 3 The Changing Nature of the External and Internal Career 33

Chapter 4 The Eight Career Anchor Categories 43

Chapter 5 The Career Interview 65

Chapter 6 Career Anchors Assessment 73

Chapter 7 What’s Next? Growth Intentions 81

Chapter 8 Five Career Anchor Stories 87

Chapter 9 Conclusion 121

Appendix: Career Anchors and Career-Oriented

Personality Assessments 127

Bibliography 139

About the author 145

Index 149