480 Pages
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Routledge
480 Pages
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Routledge
477 Pages
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Routledge
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Although sociologists have written extensively on the broad subject of occupational careers, generally they have referred only incidentally to organizational careers within work organizations. In this pioneering sourcebook, now considered a classic, Glaser gathered from the literature of occupational sociology those studies that bear most directly on organizational careers. His objective was to... Read more
Introduction; I: Toward a Theory of Organizational Careers; 1: Career and Office; 2: Careers Personality, and Adult Socialization; 3: The Study of the Career Timetables; 4: Careers, Life-Styles, and Social Integration; II: Recruitment to Organizational Careers; 5: The Recruitment of Industrial Scientists; 6: Recruitment to the Academic Career; 7: Procedures of Academic Recruitment; 8: Recruiting Volunteers; 9: Recruitment of Wall Street Lawyers; III: Career Motivations within the Organization; 10: Professional Incentives in Industry; 11: Military Career Motivations; 12: Career Development of Scientists; 13: Careerist Types; 14: Prestige Grading: A Mechanism of Control; 15: Aspirations of Telephone Workers; 16: The Chronology of Aspirations of Automobile Workers; IV: Loyalty and Commitment to the Organizational Career; 17: Cosmopolitan and Locals; 18: Reference Groups and Loyalties in the Out-Patient Department; 19: Enculturation in Industrial Research; 20: Career Concerns and Footholds in the Organization; 21: The Expansion Orientation of Supervisors of Research; 22: Career Mobility and Organizational Commitment; V: Sources and Strategies of Promotion; 23: Success; 24: The Accumulation of Advantages vs. the Bureaucratic Crawl; 25: Patterns of Mobility within Industrial Organizations; 26: Military Tactics of Promotion; 27: Selecting Law Partners; 28: The Airline Pilot’s Career Timetable; 29: Publish or Perish; 30: Informal Factors in Career Achievement; 31: Sponsorship and Rejection; 32: Sponsorship in the Medical Profession; 33: The Negro Union Official: A Study of Sponsorship and Control; 34: Advancement in the Japanese Factory; VI: Managing Demotion; 35: Consequences of Failure in Organizations; 36: Demotion in Industrial Management; 37: Comparative Failure in Science; 38: Demotion; 39: Moving Up and Down in the World; 40: Incompetence in the Japanese Factory; 41: “Failures” Who Stay with the Law Firm; 42: Demotion and Sinecure Offices; VII: Organizational Succession; 43: The Problem of Succession in Bureaucracy; 44: Regularized Status-Passage; 45: Vacant Position and Promotion; 46: How Vacancies Occur in Academic Careers; 47: Weeding Out Lawyers; 48: Bureaucratic Succession; 49: The Problem of Generations in an Organizational Structure; 50: The Effects of Succession: A Comparative Study of Military and Business Organization; 51: Executive Succession in Small Companies; VIII: Moving between Organizations; 52: The Career of the Schoolteacher; 53: Touristry: A Type of Occupational Mobility; 54: Compliance Specialization and Executive Mobility; 55: Security and Alternative Career Possibilities in Other Organizations; 56: Internship Appointments of Medical Students; IX: Executive and Worker Career Patterns; 57: The Chief Executives; 58: Self-Made Men; 59: The Elite Military Nucleus; 60: Organizational Career Patterns of Business Leaders; 61: Career Patterns of Manual Workers; 62: The Career of the Letter Carrier; 63: From Organizational Career to Private Practice
Biography
Barney Glaser
