Career Management & Work/Life Integration: Using Self-Assessment to Navigate Contemporary Careers is a comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide to managing contemporary careers. Although grounded in theory, the book also provides an extensive set of exercises and activities that can guide career management over the lifespan. Authors Brad Harrington and Douglas T. Hall offer a highly useful self-assessment guide for students and other individuals who want to deal with the challenge of succeeding in a meaningful career while living a happy, well-balanced life.
Professor Brad Harrington is the Executive Director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family (CWF). In this role, he is responsible for the Center′s research, convening, and executive education initiatives. The Center includes the Work & Family Roundtable that is made up of 50 of the nation′s leading companies in the human resources and work-life arena. In addition to his role as Director of CWF, Brad is also a faculty member in Organization Studies in the Carroll School of Management. Dr. Harrington started his work life in the public sector as a counselor in Department of Labor job training programs. In 1980, he began a 20-year association with Hewlett-Packard working in a number of executive and management assignments in the US and Europe. His roles included Quality Director for HP United Kingdom, Ltd., Education Manager for European Operations (Agilent Technologies), Chief Quality Officer and Member of the Executive Committee for HP′s worldwide Medical Products Business, and HP′s Corporate Manager of Management and Organization Development. Dr Harrington holds a Bachelor′s degree in Business Administration from Stonehill College, a Master′s degree in Psychology from Boston College, and a Doctorate in Human Resource Development and Organization Development from Boston University. He is a frequent lecturer at professional conferences and business schools in the US and Europe. Dr. Harrington has published a number of articles, book chapters, and case studies and his primary research interest is in the areas of changing work / career patterns, organizational learning, and innovative approaches to leadership in contemporary organizations.
Douglas T. (Tim) Hall is the Director of the Executive Development Roundtable and a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the School of Management at Boston University. He is also a core faculty member of the Human Resources Policy Institute. He has served as Acting Dean and Associate Dean of Faculty Development and Faculty Director for the Masters Programs at the School of Management. He received his graduate degrees from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. He has held faculty positions at Yale, York, Michigan State and Northwestern Universities, as well as visiting positions at Columbia, Minnesota, and the US Military Academy at West Point. At Northwestern he held the Earl Dean Howard Chair in Organizational Behavior and served as department chair. In Spring of 2002 he was a Visiting Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Dr. Hall′s latest book is Careers In and Out of Organizations (Sage Publications, 2002). He is the co-author of The Career is Dead - Long Live the Career: A Relational Approach to Careers, Careers in Organizations, Organizational Climates and Careers, The Two-Career Couple, Experiences in Management and Organizational Behavior, Career Development in Organizations, Human Resource Management: Strategy Design and Implementation, and Handbook of Career Theory. He is a recipient of the American Psychological Association′s James McKeen Cattell Award (now called the Ghiselli Award) for research design, the American Society for Training and Development′s Walter Storey Professional Practice Award, and the Academy of Management′s Everett C. Hughes Award for Career Research. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and of the Academy of Management., where he served as a member of the Board of Governors and as President of the Organizational Behavior Division and co-founder and President of the Careers Division. He was also a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Creative Leadership. He has served on the editorial boards of eight scholarly journals. His research and consulting activities have dealt with career development, women′s careers, career plateauing, work/family balance, and executive succession. He has served as a consultant to organizations such as Sears, AT&T, General Electric, Honeywell, Ford Motor Company, Eli Lilly, the World Bank, and The Boeing Corporation. Most recently, he has served on the Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army′s panel to help the Army develop a new model of leadership and a new process of leadership development for the transformed Army of 2010.
