Career Interruptions
A Reconceptualization From a Chinese Taoism Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21581682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xinyi Bian (0000-0002-6681-3085, Human Resource Management, Nankai University Business School, Tianjin, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 372-385 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Career Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0894-8453 • E-ISSN: 1556-0856 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08948453221095864 |
| OpenAlex | W4225428074 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 45 |
This paper is a first attempt to draw attention to the misconception and stigma of career interruptions and provide a new conceptualization of this widely existing career phenomenon. The unique contribution of introducing Taoism into conceptualizing career interruptions is to help bring the ontological aspects of career interruptions into a sharper focus. The present study borrows the conceptions such as Wu, Wu-Wei, and the cyclic motion of time from Chinese Taoism to reveal the attributes of career interruptions and introduce the appreciator stance into the career interruption literature. The article is structured as follows. First, an overview of the literature is provided. Second, the present study argues that a reconceptualization is needed to deal with the misconception and stigma associated with career interruptions. Third, borrowing from the wisdom of traditional Chinese Taoism, four propositions are developed to help reconceptualize career interruptions. Implications for research and practice are discussed
Buddhism · Career Counseling · Career development · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Sociology · Taoism · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Higher Education and Employability · Human Resource and Talent Management · Psychological and Educational Research Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
Careers in and out of Organizations
Career Interruptions and Subsequent Earnings
Long-Term Illness as an Occupational-Career Interruption
Gender-Equalizing Family Policies and Mothers' Entry into Paid Work
The Best Time is Now!’
Rebooting and Rerouting
Opting Back In
Men's Work–life Conflict
The boundaryless career
Why do Highly Qualified Women (Still) Earn Less? Gender Differences in Long-Term Predictors of Career Success
Perceiving and responding to maternal workplace discrimination in the United States
Divergent Trends in US Maternity and Paternity Leave, 1994–2015
Family Investments in Human Capital
Make It or Break It—Women's Career Interruptions in the Age of Professional Migration
My Philosophy of Interpersonal Relationships and How It Grew
Disrupting Masculinities
Conceptualizing Stigma
Women's employment exit and reentry
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |