ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 analyses the concepts of an individual’s professional development as a starting point for the search for behaviours adapting to the rules of a psychological transactional contract in the contemporary labour market.
The limitations of the use of selected traditional concepts of professional development by J. Holland, D. Super and E. Schein are indicated.
Modern concepts are described on the example of Savickas’s model, discussing the understanding of career, independent career orientation, precariat and protheanism, and boundaryless career adopted in the monograph. It presents career typologies, career orientation in order to classify employee behaviour.
It has been shown that there is no justification for building a classification of career types, as their usefulness is not confirmed empirically. They order reality only to a narrow extent and do not help identify employees’ adaptive behaviour. In the final part, selected determinants of career orientation such as age, gender, national culture, forced and voluntary professional behaviour of an individual are analysed.
