Introduction. Understanding the Experience of Retiring -- Retiring Takes Work: The Four Big Tasks -- Task 1: Deciding When and How to Retire -- Task 2: Detaching from Work -- Task 3: Building a Provisional Life Structure for Retirement -- Task 4: Consolidating a Stable Life Structure for...

When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse. It's effective, inexpensive, widely applicable, and relatively easy to implement. Many coaches consider it to be the next wave in professional development. Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a...

This handbook is an essential reference for understanding the key debates and issues facing mentoring scholars and practitioners, and provides a theory-driven road map to guide future research and practice in the field of mentoring

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the different contributions of work and non‐work relationships that comprise individuals' developmental networks to career success. Design/methodology/approach – A multi‐method approach provides a rich understanding of how work and...

Purpose: This paper examines whether employee-driven practices of reverse mentoring and job crafting lead to work engagement and, in turn, to higher levels of prospective mental and physical health. Design/methodology/approach: Integrating social exchange theory and the job demands and...

Introduction to the handbook of research methods in careers / Wendy Murphy and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas -- 1. Mapping methods in careers research: A review and future research agenda / Jos Akkermans, Colin I.S.G. Lee, Sanne Nijs, Aimilia Mylona, and Janneke K. Oostrom -- PartI Measurement and...

Purpose – In today's turbulent business environment leaders must be able to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. For this research the authors aim to focus on the issue of adaptability defined as the ability to work effectively within a variety of changing situations, and with various...

Purpose – To elaborate how an adult development perspective can further an understanding of mentoring (developmental) networks and their value to focal individuals in terms of the developmental functions provided and outcomes such as personal learning, task performance and development....