Career development models

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to find out how they can balance their personal life and work life considering that Balinese women play three roles at once, namely the household role, the economic role, and the traditional role, both in the family, banjar, and in the traditional village. This research is a type of qualitative research that, in exploring its meaning, uses semi-structured interviews to gain an understanding of Balinese women who are in different phases of career development. The informants used in this study were 3 (three) Balinese women who were in 3 different career development models: the idealistic achievement model involved women aged 24 to 35 years who were at the beginning of a career, the pragmatic endurance model involved women aged 36 to 45 years in mid-career, and the re-inventive contribution model involved women at the end of their careers, aged 46 to 60 years, who occupy structural positions in the finance section at the Denpasar City OPD with the status of those who are married or swadharma grhasta asrama respectively. The data analysis technique used in this study uses the interpretive phenomenology analysis (IPA) approach developed by Smith to explore understanding.