Napoleon in the Hamster Wheel: in the Labyrinth of Gendered Career Trajectories
Publication date: 1 December 2018
Abstract
Learning outcomes
To analyze and personally relate to an individual having faced a quarter-life crisis; to define how environmental factors influence the person’s career priorities; to analyze the causes of career-family conflicts; to comprehend another gender’s position and concerns; and to originate ideas for prospective career development.
Case overview/synopsis
The case study presents a career management dilemma of a PhD candidate, senior lecturer at the Almaty Management University, Kazakhstan and a married mother of two small children. Having faced a kind of quarter-life crisis and the pressures of a traditional society with gendered career trajectories, the protagonist (33) is challenging her initial plan of an academic career that sees gradual promotion and progress and has to make a difficult decision about her professional and personal identity amidst the realities of a newly emerging and transitional economy.
Complexity academic level
Master’s level
Supplementary materials
Teaching notes, company’s organizational charts, protagonist’s curriculum vitae, PowerPoint slides with the protagonist and her classmates’ pictures.
Subject code
CSS 6: Human Resource Management.
Keywords
Acknowledgements
The author would like to show gratitude to Dr Zoltan Buzady, Associate Professor of Leadership at Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary for the expert supervision of the present case study, to Dr Assylbek Kozhakhmetov, President of AlmaU for supporting the author’s professional development and to the IMTA Professors for inspiring her to write case studies.
Disclaimer: This case is written solely for educational purposes and is not intended to represent successful or unsuccessful managerial decision making. The author/s may have disguised names; financial and other recognizable information to protect confidentiality.
Citation
Lipovka, A.V. (2018), "Napoleon in the Hamster Wheel: in the Labyrinth of Gendered Career Trajectories", , Vol. 8 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/EEMCS-05-2018-0065
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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