The Dark Sides of Careers

What It Means When We Don't Succeed at Work
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2613-3
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

While career success stories are studied extensively, their negative aspects often get overlooked.

This book explores the darker sides of careers, examining the implications for organizations, societies, economies and individuals themselves. It sheds light on key issues such as the role of careers in people’s advancement through social and economic capital, the dark personality traits often found in successful people and how careers can become a form of modern servitude.

Combining scholarly, practitioner and policymaking perspectives, this is a valuable contribution to debates around futures of work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bozionelos, Nikos

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Arbeitsplatz, Arbeitsschutz, Gefahrstoffschutz
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wirtschaftsethik, Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. What Are Careers?

2. How Do We Typically Understand Careers?

3. Careers as Rarities, and Dashed Hopes

4. Careers as Perpetuators of Social Injustice and Economic Stagnation

5. Who Gets Ahead?

6. Careers as Modern Servitude

7. Career as a Means of Dis-Continuation of Oneself

8. Will There Be “Dark Sides” in the Careers of the Future?

9. Is There an Alternative without “Dark Sides”?

Über Autor(innen)

Nikos Bozionelos is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and International Human Resource Management at Emlyon Business School.