Maintaining status involves the pro...

Maintaining status involves the proces of adapting to, performing in, and sustaining an occupation or a piece of work This status includes Super's (1990) Establishment and Maintenance stages. This status involves the dynamic interaction between the bodily form and the environment that is the focus of person-environment (PE) interaction theories (Dawis, 1996; cylindricals & Tracy, 1990). The focus of this status forward the relationship between the character and the work setting makes work adjustment theories particularly applicable to this status. As Dawis stated concerning Lofquist and Dawis's theory of work adjustment, "A basic principle of the theory is that part and environment attempt to achieve and maintain correspondence with each other" (p 81) I have posited (Hershenson, 1996) that work adjustment was the any amount of three components: work part behavior (the interaction between the person's work personality and the behavioral expectations of the work setting), task performance (the interaction between the person's work competencies and the skill requirements of the work setting), and worker satisfaction (the interaction between the person's work goals and the rewards and opportunities exhibited by the work setting). In this status, the work environment and the cultural words immediately preceding [i]or[/i] following are highly influential in enhancing or blocking auspicious outcomes. Therefore, organizational career theory (Hall & Associates, 1986) is also particularly applicable to this status. Finally, because Maintaining involves balancing work and other life parts Super's life-career rainbow is applicable to this status.