Faculty profile
William Borgen
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Research
Latest funding
- $98,235
When you Stop you are Nothing: Older Men and the Transition to Retirement
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $170,484
Cultural infusions and shifting sands: how indigenous and immigrant youth make career decisions
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
- $98,025
How middle managers and non-retiring workers successfully handle change
SSHRC · 2009 · Principal investigator
When you Stop you are Nothing: Older Men and the Transition to Retirement
Principal investigators: Borgen, William A.
Keywords: older men; retirement; transition
Cultural infusions and shifting sands: how indigenous and immigrant youth make career decisions
Principal investigators: Borgen, William A.
Keywords: career decision making; indigenous and immigrant young people; cultural influences; career development; narrative and critical incident methodologies
How middle managers and non-retiring workers successfully handle change
Principal investigators: Borgen, William A.
Keywords: career counselling; transitions; management; older workers; retirement
After the guns have stopped: civilian life transitions for Canadian Forces members
Principal investigators: Black, Timothy G.
Keywords: transition; veteran; civilian; successful; critical incident; qualitative; focus group
Towards a flexible workforce: workers and their ability to meet the challenges of ongoing change
Principal investigators: Amundson, Norman E.
Keywords: counselling; counselling model; coping with change; doing well with change; career development; career resilience; labour shortage; immigrants; older workers; younger workers; changing workplace; career adaptation; workplace bullying
Towards a preventive / developmental approach to counselling: helping people meet the challenges of ongoing changes
Principal investigators: Borgen, William A.
Keywords: counselling; counselling model; critical incident; coping with change; transition; career; career development; career resilience; changing economies; changing workplace; downsizing; productivity; changing work paradigm; absenteeism; unemployment
The effectiveness of a group-based counselling intervention for facilitating personal and career transition among Canadian peacekeeping soldiers
Principal investigators: Westwood, Marvin
Keywords: career transition; trauma; stress; peacekeeping soldiers; therapeutic enactment; life review; starting points
The experience of workers following the restructuring of their work environment: what helps and what hinders
Principal investigators: Amundson, Norman
Keywords: Worker's experience; career transitions; employment; labour
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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