DONALD SUPER'S CAREER DEVELOPMENT THEORY

Теория развития карьеры по Дональду Суперу

The noted career development theorist, Donald Super, holds the following general tenets regarding the development of careers over a person's life span:

1.   People differ in their abilities, interests, and personalities.

2. Each person is qualified for a number of occupations.

3. Each occupation requires characteristic patterns of abilities, interests, and personality traits (wide tolerance).

4. Vocational preferences and competencies change as person’s self-concept changes with time and experience, making career choice and adjustment a continuous process.

5. Vocational choices and adjustments may be summed up in terms of career life stages.

6. The nature of career patterns are determined by socioeconomic level, mental ability, personality, and opportunities.

7. Development through life/career stages can be guided by facilitating the maturation of abilities and interests,

reality testing, and the development of self-concept.

8. The process of vocational development is essentially that of developing and implementing the self-concept. It is a compromise process between inherited characteristics, opportunities, and feedback on roles.

9. The process of compromise between individual and social factors and between self- concept and reality is one of

role playing in the form of fantasy, part-time, or temporary jobs.

10. Work satisfaction depends on the extent to which an individual finds adequate out- lets for interests, abilities,

personality traits, and values. It depends on getting established in a type of work, work situations, and lifestyle

in which a worker can play the kinds of roles she/he considers congenial and appropriate.

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