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In today's difficult economic times, where jobs
are drying up because of the global recession
and those who are employed are finding it difficult to keep their jobs, many would think
of taking the entrepreneurial route. Their thinking
in part gets voice and support from those who highlight the virtue and importance of being a
job creator rather than just being a job seeker. It is
easy to get bitten by this entrepreneurial bug but
it would be naïve to believe that everyone
and anyone can become an entrepreneur. In this
article an attempt has been made to highlight the importance of entrepreneurial creativity
for becoming a successful entrepreneur. But,
before we discuss about entrepreneurial creativity,
it would be pertinent to discuss about career itself.
In today's business world of weakening psychological contract and
shortening employment contract, the concept and meaning
of career has undergone a metamorphosis. Traditionally, career was an organizational
concept in the sense that individuals got hired for life
and employees built their careers in line with the growth of the organization. That is,
individual growth within the organization and the growth
of the organization, to a large extent was
intertwined and reciprocal in nature. From this, the concept
of career has undergone a tremendous change to become an independent concept. Career today
has come to be defined as a series of individual
jobs that could largely be seen as progressing from
one to the other to provide a meaningful career over
the lifespan of an individual's work life. The organization in such a situation has become
a vehicle or a means of fulfilling an individual's career objectives. |
