Linear and Nonlinear Career Models: Metaphors, Paradigms, and Ideologies
Document Type
Article
Language
eng
Format of Original
40 p.
Publication Date
5-1991
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Source Publication
Management Communication Quarterly
Source ISSN
0893-3189
Abstract
The communicative dimensions of career models have been insufficiently explored in contemporary career literature. Linear or bureaucratic career models dominate career research, metaphors, paradigms, and ideologies while maintaining career myths. These myths suggest the possibility of flexibility and individualized routes to “success” in organizational systems incapable of offering such versatility. Nonlinear career models offer suggestive metaphors for re-visioning careers and the promise of personalized definitions of success, control, and growth. Nonlinear approaches reconfigure career concepts to incorporate acceptance of individual needs and communal values consonant with demographic and structural societal changes.
Recommended Citation
Buzzanell, Patrice M. and Goldzwig, Steven R., "Linear and Nonlinear Career Models: Metaphors, Paradigms, and Ideologies" (1991). College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications. 382.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/382
Comments
Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4 (May 1991): 466-505. DOI.