Professional Viability In A Multinational World Of Uncertainty

Abstract

The paper addresses the problem of professional viability in a multinational world of uncertainty. It is suggested that the professional viability of a person in a multinational world of uncertainty is affected by such components of the professional self-concept as changing self and ethnic self. The structural components of changing self include tolerance to uncertainty, flexibility, independence, adaptability, acceptance of responsibility, risk taking, trans-situational locus of control, psychological activation, trans-situational variability, and trans-situational mobility. The paper considers cognitive, affective, behavioral and motivational components as structural components of ethnic self. The relationship between underlying scenarios and career success of women and men has been empirically established (the study involved people aged 30–45 years). The empirical study on a group of women (middle adulthood) shows the relationship between the subject-object orientations of a person, underlying scenarios, individual components of changing self and the focus on personal changes required for future professional achievements. The empirical study on a group of senior university students (aged 20–22 years) shows the relationship between formation of the components of changing self, effective underlying scenarios, the level of differentiation of the self, and the focus of a person on professional success and his readiness for personal changes associated with professional activity in time perspective. In addition, features of ethnic self are analyzed on a group of students.