The career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard: A psychobiography |
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| Authors: | Roelf van Niekerk Henry Vos Paul Fouché |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africaroelf.vanniekerk@nmmu.ac.za;3. Private practice, Cape Town, South Africa;4. Department of Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | This study employs a psychobiographical case study to describe and interpret the career development of Christiaan Neethling Barnard, who performed the first human heart transplant. It interprets Barnard's life history according to the career development model of Greenhaus, Callanan and Godshalk (2010), which proposes the following four stages: occupational and organisational choice, early, middle, and late career. Generally, Barnard's career progression matched the stages proposed by Greenhaus et al. (2010 Greenhaus, J. H., Callanan, G. A., & Godschalk, V. M. (2010). Career management (4th ed.). Los Angeles: Sage. Google Scholar]). Exceptions were noted that relate to the first and fourth stages: Barnard experienced an extended occupational and organisational choice stage, while he showed no signs of career disengagement during the late career stage. The study confirmed the usefulness of the career development model of Greenhaus et al. within the psychobiographical research tradition. |
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| Keywords: | Career psychology extraordinariness longitudinal case studies South African pioneers |
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