Career Development for Female Public Managers: Workshop Manual

摘要

This manual presents career planning curricula for female public managers in the areas of career decisionmaking; career switching and changing tracks; career teams, networking, and mentoring; life planning and career planning; office politics and organizational structure. Objectives of the workshop are to introduce career planning to individuals and set up systems for mutual support. The manual begins with problem definitions, presents the workshop components, suggests coping strategies, and supplies information materials for workshop packets. Each workshop contains exercises to help participants examine attitudes, values, expectations, and skills influenced by stereotyped views of women. The first workshop component, career decisionmaking, discusses such topics as self - concept, feelings about success, personal values and job demands, and functional skills. Considerations of career change include skills analysis and goal setting. The career teams component deals with identifying and building networks and mentor relationships, and the benefits and risks of career planning. Life and career planning relates the self - concept with career planning, and suggests weighing interests and job demands, based on an assessment of personal needs. Among the coping strategies taught are approaches to requesting a raise, increasing visibility, applying for a promotion, initiating performance evaluation, resume writing guidelines, and interview strategies. A sample evaluation form, about 50 references, and a variety of exercises are provided.