IOP4863 Assignment 3 (DETAILED ANSWERS) 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED Answers, guidelines, workings and references ...... The case of Thandi Thandi is a 30-year-old African female. Thandi completed her BCom degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IOP) in 2013 and her BCom honours degree in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IOP) in 2015. Her husband is a mechanical engineer and they have two children under the age of six. The family lives in an urban area. Thandi is the first-born in a family of five, all of whom were born and raised in a semi-rural area. They all attended public schools for both primary and secondary education. From a young age, Thandi was very curious and liked to do things in a routine manner. Upon completing her BCom degree in 2013, Thandi got a job with a local accounting firm. She welcomed this job, as her family was struggling to make ends meet. Thandi informed her employers that she would like to further her studies and they therefore paid the tuition fees for her to obtain her BCom honours degree. Now that she has completed her honours degree, she has begun to question her career choice. She enjoys the accounting environment because it is routine; however, she is bored with the numerical nature of her work. She wants more, but she cannot clearly identify what she wants. Her line manager refers Thandi to an industrial and organisational (IO) psychologist for career counselling and guidance. She hopes to get assistance in making the right career choice. After a few sessions with the IO psychologist, Thandi completes some career assessments. The results are presented in table 1 below. Table 1: Assessment information Assessment instrument Purpose Results Schein’s career orientations inventory (COI) Used to establish a person’s career anchor (self-concept, consisting of self-perceived talents and abilities, basic values) Scored high on the following: Sense of service/dedication to a cause Security and stability Lifestyle Self-directed search (SDS) Underpinned by Holland’s theory of individual decision-making styles to determine interest areas Scored high on the following: Investigative: focuses more on medical issues Conventional: likes activities that permit the organisation of information in a clear and orderly manner Social: a high score on community service Based on the information presented above, answer the following questions: 2 1.1. Using your knowledge of Super’s theory of developmental stages, describe the career life stage most appropriate to Thandi and discuss the core psychological tasks associated with her career life stage (see table 2.2 in Coetzee et al., 2022). (10) 1.2. Using your knowledge of Schein’s theory of career anchors, describe Thandi’s core personality strengths and the career values underlying her assessment results based on the COI assessment. (5) 1.3. Based on your understanding of psychosocial career hurdles (see table 2.4 in Coetzee et al., 2022), reflect on Thandi’s case and identify ONE psychosocial career hurdle that you believe may be impacting on her adaptive career capacity profile. Provide examples from the case study to motivate your answer. (5) [20]
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