Organizational Careers
Subtitle: a Sourcebook for Theory
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781315125909
Subjects: Occupations; Professions; Vocational guidance
Description: "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 provide the first survey of the substantial body of data on the subject and to place this data in a framework that illustrates its significance for the development of theory. In an extensive introduction, the editor explains the several purposes of the book and describes in detail the process of comparative analysis through which sociological theory on organizational careers can be generated. Organized around general themes such as recruitment, motivation, commitment, mobility, and succession, the writings of prominent sociologists--including Riesman, Caplow, Hughes, Becker, and Wilensky--form the content of the book and systematically cover every important facet of organizational careers. The editor's introductions to each section of the book alert the reader to the general phenomena--such as processes, conditions, categories, hypotheses, and properties--that crosscut and are generally relevant to all organizational careers and are, therefore, the raw material of theory. These introductions also suggest questions and problems for further analysis and research. This book as a whole stands as a demonstration of the contributors' method of how the sociologist, working from the data of research, can generate grounded, formal theory on this or any social phenomenon. This book also presents a vital body of data on organizational careers and a guide to further research that will be of great use both to occupational sociologists and to all those involved in the study of organizations."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: part Part I: Toward a Theory of Organizational Careers; title: chapter 1 Career and Office; title: chapter 2 Careers, Personality, and Adult Socialization; title: chapter 3 The Study of Career Timetables; title: chapter 4 Careers, Life-Styles, and Social Integration; title: part Part II: Recruitment to Organizational Careers; title: chapter 5 The Recruitment of Industrial Scientists; title: chapter 6 Recruitment to the Academic Career; title: chapter 7 Procedures of Academic Recruitment; title: chapter 8 Recruiting Volunteers; title: chapter 9 Recruitment of Wall Street Lawyers; title: part Part III: Career Motivations within the Organization; title: chapter 10 Professional Incentives in Industry; title: chapter 11 Military Career Motivations; title: chapter 12 Career Development of Scientists; title: chapter 13 Careerist Types; title: chapter 14 Prestige Grading: A Mechanism of Control; title: chapter 15 Aspirations of Telephone Workers; title: chapter 16 The Chronology of Aspirations of Automobile Workers; title: part Part IV : Loyalty and Commitment to the Organizational Career; title: chapter 17 Cosmopolitans and Locals; title: chapter 18 Reference Groups and Loyalties in the Out-Patient Department; title: chapter 19 Enculturation in Industrial Research; title: chapter 20 Career Concerns and Footholds in the Organization; title: chapter 21 The Expansion Orientation of Supervisors of Research; title: chapter 22 Career Mobility and Organizational Commitment; title: part Part V: Sources and Strategies of Promotion; title: chapter 23 Success; title: chapter 24 The Accumulation of Advantages vs. the Bureaucratic Crawl; title: chapter 25 Patterns of Mobility within Industrial Organizations; title: chapter 26 Military Tactics of Promotion; title: chapter 27 Selecting Law Partner; title: chapter 28 The Airline Pilot's Career Timetable; title: chapter 29 Publish or Perish; title: chapter 30 Informal Factors in Career Achievement; title: chapter 31 Sponsorship and Rejection; title: chapter 32 Sponsorship in the Medical Profession; title: chapter 33 The Negro Union Official: A Study of Sponsorship and Control; title: chapter 34 Advancement in the Japanese Factory; title: part Part VI : Managing Demotion; title: chapter 35 Consequences of Failure in Organizations; title: chapter 36 Demotion in Industrial Management; title: chapter 37 Comparative Failure in Science; title: chapter 38 Demotion; title: chapter 39 Moving Up and Down in the World; title: chapter 40 Incompetence in the Japanese Factory; title: chapter 41?Failures? Who Stay with the Law Firm; title: chapter 42 Demotion and Sinecure Offices; title: part Part VII : Organizational Succession; title: chapter 43 The Problem of Succession in Bureaucracy; title: chapter 44 Regularized Status-Passage; title: chapter 45 Vacant Position and Promotion; title: chapter 46 How Vacancies Occur in Academic Careers; title: chapter 47 Weeding Out Lawyers; title: chapter 48 Bureaucratic Succession; title: chapter 49 The Problem of Generations in an Organizational Structure; title: chapter 50 The Effects of Succession: A Comparative Study of Military and Business Organization; title: chapter 51 Executive Succession in Small Companies; title: part Part VIII : Moving between Organizations; title: chapter 52 The Career of the Schoolteacher; title: chapter 53 Touristry: A Type of Occupational Mobility; title: chapter 54 Compliance Specialization and Executive Mobility; title: chapter 55 Security and Alternative Career Possibilities in Other Organizations; title: chapter 56 Internship Appointments of Medical Students; title: part Part IX: Executive and Worker Career Patterns; title: chapter 57 The Chief Executives; title: chapter 58 Self-Made Men; title: chapter 59 The Elite Military Nucleus; title: chapter 60 Organizational Career Patterns of Business Leaders; title: chapter 61 Career Patterns of Manual Workers; title: chapter 62 The Career of the Letter Carrier; title: chapter 63 From Organizational Career to Private Practice.