1. The career development perspective. p.1.-- Part 1. The individual and the life cycle: 2. Individual developement. p.17.-- 3. The stages and task of the biosocial life cycle. p.27.-- 4. The stages and tasks of the career cycle. p.36.-- 5. The states, stages, and tasks of the family.p.49.-- 6. Constructive coping: what the individual can do about life tasks. p.62.-- Part 2. Career dynamics: the individual organization interaction: 7. Entry into the organizational career. p.81.-- 8. Socialization and learning to work. p.94.-- 9. Mutua acceptance: defining the psychological contract. p.112.-- 10. The development of career anchors: technical and managerial. p.124.-- 11. Security, autonomy, and creativity as career anchors. p.147.-- 12. Career anchors in perspective: some related research. p.161.-- 13. Medcareer: making it, leveling off, or starting over. p.173.-- Part 3. Managing human resource planning and development. 14. Human resource planning and development: a total system. p.189.-- 15. Human resource planning and career stages. p.200.-- 16. Job/role planning. p.221.-- 17. Toward an integrated view of human resource planning and developement. p.243.-- Appendix 1: career anchor self-analysis form. p.257.-- Appendix 2: case example: diamond products corporation. p.263