The world of business and human resources presupposes the facts of future retirement within workers and the loss of somebody’s experience in the workplace. Many employees tend to make more efforts in order to follow the rhythmic movements towards success and better manifestation of personal achievements in the middle-aged period. Career change during this period is rather felt and provided by employees so that to point out personal significance in this or that sort of activity. Hoyer and Roodin learned the prescription and characteristic features of people of this period of life and pointed out the following: “Investigators have speculated that by middle age, people often experience boredom in their occupations and recognize career limitations, as well as the diminished likelihood of advancement, which together promote diminished job satisfaction” (Hoyer & Roodin, p. 475). People due to their difference in characters, can vary in further actions leading to the retirement and pension. When speaking of the retirement period it is rather significant to evaluate the satisfaction of a definite employee as of the reliability and right direction of his/her capacities and capabilities in a field of professional involvement.
Holland’s theory emphasizes the division of personalities urging to point out the specific connection between types of temperaments and individual inclinations towards different spheres of activity. His evaluation consists of six parts which encompass the whole area of peoples’ professions. The theory itself is entitled as RIASEC with glimpses on every type of personality: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, conventional. (Hoyer & Roodin, p. 468) The choice of profession according to the above-mentioned types of personalities is worked out in the following way:
- Realistic (concrete, materialistic, practical): a computer programmer, an engineer, etc.
- Investigative (rational, intellectual): a researcher, a scientist.
- Artistic (creative, emotionally opened, original): an art worker.
- Social (helpful, reliable towards people, cooperative): a teacher, a social figure, personnel managers.
- Enterprising (high motivation and intention, strong, responsible): sales work, business, administration.
- Conventional (efficiency, conformity): a receptionist, a bookkeeper. (Hoyer & Roodin 468)
A significant characteristic feature that presents the similarity for all six types is that in real life all these specializations are closely related, and in the workplace, one cannot but agree that, for example, contemporary scientists need computer genii who in return can adhere to the personnel management team and people being dominant at an entertainment. The psychological approach is greatly used by the theory’s author in terms of efficacy in the estimation of a personality and an individual’s place under the sun. Also, it is quite necessary to admit that one person can be devoted to more than one type of personality. It is stipulated by the reciprocal nature of types’ interrelation connection.
To sum up, the theory points are widely discussed in psychology and age preferences of people in a profession choice. A diversity of suchlike peculiarities in persons’ capabilities may be projected on one or more types that are mentioned above.
Works cited
Hoyer, William J. Roodin, Paul A. Adult Development and Aging. 5th Edition. McGraw Hill, 2003