Charting Your Own Course: Exploring How Values Drive Career Decision-Making

Abstract

There is a common understanding that personal values play a part in career decision-making. Each of the papers in this symposium investigates the role that values play in different stages of career development. The first paper, by Kathryn Doiron, Ague Mae Manongsong, Wenhao Wang, Briana Pisauro, Kristine Powers, and Pooja Sathyanarayanan, investigates the use of two values-based interventions on the early career exploration of graduate students. The second paper, by Jeffrey Yip, Haoxiong Li, Ellen Ensher, and Susan Murphy, validates a scale for a new typology of career decision-making styles. The third paper, by Christopher Chen, Kathryn Doiron, Elizabeth Kolokowsky, and Brandon Sorenson, asks participants to recall a critical career- decision making incident and reflect on how values and related factors impacted the decision that was made. The final paper, by Molly Maymar, Shelby Kan, and Jake Gittleson, presents findings from a new performance management initiative at Accenture, where personal values and aspirations are used to judge performance. The symposium will conclude with comments by Dr. Douglas. T. Hall, from Boston University, who will use his expertise in careers research to comment across all four papers and facilitate questions from the audience. Value Affirmation and Future Best Self Interventions Impact on Graduate Student Career Exploration Presenter: Kathryn Doiron; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Ague Mae Manongsong; Drexel U. Presenter: Wenhao Wang; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Briana Pisauro; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Kristine Powers; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Pooja Sathyanarayanan; Claremont Graduate U. Beyond Logic and Intuition: Validating a Measure of Career Discernment Styles Presenter: Jeffrey Yip; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Haoxiong Li; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Ellen Ensher; Loyola Marymount U. Presenter: Susan E. Murphy; U. of Edinburgh Rethinking Values and Career Decision-making: Enriching Protean Career Orientation Theory Presenter: Christopher Legion Chen; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Kathryn Doiron; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Elizabeth Kolokowsky; Claremont Graduate U. Presenter: Brandon Sorenson; Claremont Graduate U. Recognizing the Whole Person: Integrating Work/Life at Accenture Presenter: Molly Maymar; Accenture Presenter: Shelby Kan; Accenture Presenter: Jake Gittleson; Accenture