Career Anchors Reimagined, 5th Edition

Research Notes and References

Chapter One

The twenty reflections are based roughly on the last decade's worth of writing and research on the broad economic and social shifts that affect work and organization. The focus is on change in workplace practices that seemingly have significant effect on our personal and collective lives. These shifts play out not only in the United States but globally, albeit at different rates and emphasis, as well. The list includes both prescriptive or normative writings and empirically based trend studies. Organized by the three categories we used to highlight the changes, representative works examining mostly—but not exclusively—the trends in the United States include:

New Ways of Working:

1. 1. Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda, Gurus, Hired Guns and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in the Knowledge Economy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
2. 2. Peter Cappelli, The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work, and the Hard Choices We All Face. Philadelphia: Wharton School Press, 2021.
3. 3. Amy Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth. San Francisco: Wiley, 2018.
4. 4. Matthew E. Kahn, Going Remote: How the Flexible Work Economy Can Improve Our Lives and Our Cities. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2022.
5. 5. Leslie Perlow, Sleeping with Your Cell Phone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work. Boston: Harvard Business School ...