MIDDLE CAREER ISSUES Group-11

GROUP-11
Sl. No. Name ID No.
1 Abdullah Al Mahmud Khan 249
2 Shafayat Uz Zaman 267
3 S.M. Kamrul Islam 273
Middle Career
• The midcareer years roughly span a 15-year period between the ages
of 40 and 55.
• Has two major career/life tasks
1. Confronting the midlife transition: Understanding that early adulthood and
all that it entails can never be relived. Coming to grips with that fact and
make adjustments for the future.
2. Remaining productive: Maintain the status quo, try to grow or slowly
decline?
Career Plateau
• A plateau is the point in a career where the likelihood of additional
hierarchical promotion is very low.
• Why is plateauing such a universal experience?
1. Organizations provide fewer and fewer positions at the higher level
of hierarchy.
2. There is competition for these few positions.
3. Organization growing slowly or not growing at all.
4. Virtually eliminating mandatory retirement.
Career Plateau (Cont’d)
5. Change in technology may close certain career paths or open new
paths for which employees are not prepared.
6. Employees more likely to plateau because they thought it’s more
valuable for them to stay at their current position.
7. The desire for a more balanced lifestyle.
Model of Managerial Career
Current Likelihood of Future Promotion
Performance Low High
Solid Citizens
(Effective Plateauees)
High Stars
Organizationally Personally
Plateaued Plateaued
Low Deadwood Learners
(Ineffective Plateauees) (Comers)

Table 1: Model of Managerial Careers

Midcareer Change
• Affected by individual and environmental factors as well as attractive alternatives,
confidence and support received. Decision may be done because of healthy or
wrong reasons.
Healthy Reasons Х Wrong Reasons
 Reaching a career plateau Х Dissatisfaction with oneself as a
 Becoming obsolescent person
 Becoming bored Х Depression
 Feeling underused Х Anxiety over feelings of mortality
 Being in a position for which one is Х Overvaluation of one’s own
underqualified competence and worth
 Recognizing that the original Х Intense competition for status with
occupation choice was inappropriate friends and acquaintances
Organizational and Individual Actions During
Midcareer
Organizational Actions
• Help employees understand midcareer experiences
• Provide expanded and flexible mobility opportunities
• Utilization of the current job
• Encourage and teach mentoring skills
• Training and continuous education
• Broaden the reward system
Individual actions
Midcareer Crisis
• According to US Office of Personal Management, the definition of
midcareer professional is “someone who is 10 to 15 years into their
career”.
• If a midcareer professional faces some obstacles in his/her career
paths, then it’s called midcareer crisis.
Midcareer Crisis (Cont’d)
• Six ways to deal with midcareer crisis
1. Recharging and rejuvenating
2. Introspection
3. Finding meaning in the job
4. Setting targets
5. Doing something new
6. Being ready to take hard decisions
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