Transition Expertise and Identity
Transition Expertise and Identity
Fernand Gobet, London School of Economics and Political Science
Through a systematic review of relevant literature and an analysis of in-depth interviews with key expert performers, this book examines the nature of expertise that enables individuals to make repeated successful transitions over the course of their career. Focusing on business, sports, and music, it examines the roles of motivation, cognitive flexibility, personal intelligence, generative thinking, and contextual intelligence in this process. It further shows how identity changes and adapts during a career transition and how self concept evolves over the course of a career. This book has wide appeal for academics in psychology, sports, music, and business, as well as coaches, mentors, talent management, and training organisations across these domains.
- Integrates theoretical foundations with interviews and data analysis to show how theory can explain human behavior
- Provides a cross-disciplinary perspective, integrating cognitive psychology, intelligence, expertise, and motivation
- Adds new theory, knowledge, and insight to the field of careers and career progression
Product details
No date availableHardback
9781009100175
428 pages
236 × 159 × 29 mm
0.79kg
Table of Contents
- Preface: is there such a thing as transition expertise?
- Introduction
- 1. Introduction: career transitions in expert performers
- Part I. Transitions:
- 2. Career stage transitions: a work life cycle review
- 3. The expert transition cycle: the process of change in a transition
- 4. Intelligence, cognition, and expertise: as they inform transition expertise
- Part II. Transition Expertise:
- 5. Cognitive flexibility: mental adaptation and evolution
- 6. Generative intelligence: the intelligence of change
- 7. Personal intelligences: awareness of self and others in transitions
- 8. Contextual intelligence: utilizing the environment in transitions
- Part III. Motivation:
- 9. Motivation: the intrinsic organization of choice
- 10. Purpose: motivation informing meaning
- Part IV. The Project of the Self:
- 11. Identity: its adaption during the expert transition cycle
- 12. Self concept: its evolution during career stage transitions
- Conclusion
- 13. Conclusion: findings and future opportunities
- Appendices
- Appendix 1: methodology
- Appendix 2: Non-transitions.
