ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a critical analysis of career by investigating its more problematic or overlooked sides. It discusses career from a critical sociohistorical perspective, and highlights the contingent nature of the term and the multifarious ways in which it was deployed as a vehicle for power and domination. The chapter looks at organizational careers from people management and human resource lenses. The depiction and analysis of organizational life in management, career and organization studies literature has traditionally been positively and normatively biased. Without doubt, career systems and those managing such systems subsume a positive dependence between advancement and organizationally accepted and condoned behavior. Organizational misbehavior refers to those discretionary acts by members of organizations that violate core organizational and/or societal norms defined as proper conduct. Boundaries are an inherent attribute of organizational and professional systems, and crossing boundaries is an integral part of careers.
