Advanced Introduction to Sustainable Careers

Elgar Advanced Introductions series

Jeffrey H. Greenhaus, Professor Emeritus of Management, Department of Management, Drexel University and Gerard A. Callanan, Professor of Management, Department of Management, West Chester University, US

This insightful Advanced Introduction provides a road map for building and maintaining a sustainable career. Delving into the meaning of a ‘sustainable career’, the book examines the factors that threaten a career’s sustainability, such as economic turbulence, changes in organizational practices, and advances in technology, offering actions that can be taken to overcome these threats and strengthen the sustainability of careers.

‘How does one build and sustain a career over the lifespan? Greenhaus and Callanan provide a roadmap for how to navigate careers in today’s turbulent work environment. Full of practical tips and research-based insights, this book is a must read for anyone at any career stage who is interested in achieving health, satisfaction, and productivity at work.’
–Tammy Allen, University of South Florida, US

‘Jeff Greenhaus’s and Gerard A. Callanan’s book, Advanced Introduction to Sustainable Careers is a well-researched, well-written, and highly accessible book on the latest literature on sustainable careers. Readers will walk away with fresh new insights on sustainable careers, and how to build, manage, and renew them for healthy satisfied and productive lives on and off the job. Scholars, students, and managers will gain new understandings on the contemporary career challenges faced across the workforce in building sustainable careers including gig workers, vulnerable populations, the continuing work-home barriers facing women’s careers, and the career issues all workers face in increasingly turbulent environments.’
– Ellen Ernst Kossek, Purdue University, US