Abstract
M.A. (Industrial Psychology)
As more and more individuals join organizations, the need to
assist such individuals with their career adjustment appears
to be increasing in both importance and urgency. Traditional
interview-based approaches, while they tend to be helpful, do
not appear to be able to meet the needs of an expanding work
force, particularly if costs and availability of qualified
professional assistance are considered.
The main purpose of the study was to determine whether career
adjustment could be facilitated by means of an experientially
based career development programme, seen as a viable alternative
to the interview-based approaches. Personal factors,
locus of control and job satisfaction were employed as the
criterion measures to reflect changes as a result of the career
development programme.
The experiment was conducted in a municipality in the Witwatersrand
area and the final sample consisted of 55 participants,
randomly assigned to 30 in the experimental group a~d 25 in
the control group. Differences between the experimental and
control groups were determined by means of an analysis of
variance for unequal groups...