The Kaleidoscope Career Model Revisited

Abstract

This study revisits the parameters of authenticity, balance, and challenge in The Kaleidoscope Career Model (KCM) concerning gender differences in midcareer. Unemployed individuals were surveyed (n ¼ 744) to determine gender differences in the three parameters across five segmented career stages. The results showed variance in the Authenticity, Balance and Challenge (ABC) parameters across career stages by gender, with balance increasingly important in full midcareer for women but of lesser importance for men. Authenticity showed a similar pattern for men and women, with authenticity rising for women and declining for men in very late career as predicted by the model. Challenge remained consistent for men and women, declining in importance over time. The study contribution offers sharper resonance of the KCM through closely segmented midlife career stages for an unemployed population undergoing career transitions.

Women's career equality and leadership in organizations: Creating an evidence‐based positive change

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“…Imageries of careers now are increasingly varied: linear and nonlinear, shape shifting/protean and deterministic, bounded and boundaryless, arrow and kaleidoscopic, and journeyed (with actual and/or aspirational) end points (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996;Buzzanell & Goldzwig, 1991;Hall, 2002;Inkson et al, 2015;Mainero & Sullivan, 2006). This imagery both focuses activity, such as the linear career as advancement notions regarding career opportunity structures and leadership development, and expands priorities, meanings, and borderlines and content, such as protean and boundaryless careers.…”

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