Department
Management, Entrepreneurship, and Human Resource Management
Document Type
Poster
Abstract
Throughout history there has been an abundance of global events that have impacted organizations. The Industrial Revolution, both World Wars, as well as the Great Depression, each redefined organizational function. The most recent of these influential incidents was the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to their global ramifications, these events also affect individual workers and their career decisions. The phrase “career shock” has been used to describe those occurrences as something disruptive or extraordinary outside of one’s control that force individuals to deliberately reevaluate their career (Akkermans et al., 2018) and COVID-19 had that effect on countless members of the global workforce. In a subsequent study, Van de Heiden and DeVos (2023) expanded on that concept and found that career shock can also lead a renewed interest in supplemental education as a means of reshaping and adapting to the changed work environment.
Publication Date
Fall 12-4-2025
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Tom, "Career Shock and its Effect on Workers and their Pursuit of Supplemental Education in a Post-Pandemic Environment" (2025). Student Scholarship. 20.
https://metroworks.metrostate.edu/student-scholarship/20
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Comments
Fall 2025: Student Research Conference