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Amal El-Sawad
Amal
El-Sawad
Playing the game: re-creational careers, a qualitative study of working lives in context
Loughborough University
2018
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Business and Management not elsewhere classified
2018-11-15 15:20:48
Thesis
https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Playing_the_game_re-creational_careers_a_qualitative_study_of_working_lives_in_context/9496751
In an attempt to make sense of the concept of career this thesis reports findings from a
case-study of twenty graduate level employees within one organisation. Responding
to the problematic features of career studies to date, a cross-disciplinary, critical,
interpretive, qualitative, contextualised study of career is presented which rejects the
dichotomous stances characterising much existing literature and instead embraces the
dialectal nature and ontological duality of career. Thus attention is devoted to both the
organisation and individual, structure and agency as well as stasis and adaptation. The
study is situated in its historical, cultural and social context and the research agenda is
purposefully emergent allowing those being studied to lead the way to the key
dimensions of career. [Continues.]