Men in Mid-Career

A study of British managers and technical specialists

AvCyril Sofer

Häftad, Engelska, 1970

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Beskrivning

Originally published in 1970, Men in Mid-Career deals with the problems of men aged 35-40 who have invested half a work-life in one type of career and may now be at a turning-point. It is at this stage that they come to realise the implications of the commitments they have made during the last 15-20 years. By this time, their personal reputations rest mainly with one employing organisation and it is difficult for them to leave unless they take a bold step involving great risks and far-reaching implications for their families, homes and types of life. The author provides a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject that was emanating from the UK and US, and goes on to report on a detailed study of representative samples of managers and technical specialists in two large UK firms. The book juxtaposes the viewpoints of senior management and the man whose career is simultaneously a building block in a task-centred system and the repository of his identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1970-05-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Sociology
Antal sidor:400
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521096065

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Recensioner i media

'Sofer has done an excellent job. In elegant, graceful prose, he paints a penetrating portrait of pre-state ploitics, from the militant Revisionist movement on the far-right to the Communist on the far-left, illustrating the process by which David Ben-Gurion and his particular faction of the Labor movement achieved hegmony.' Haárett and Herald Tribune

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The work preoccupations of executives; 2. Persons as organisational resources; 3. The career as a personal experience; 4. The bureaucratised organisation as an occupational environment; 5. Functions of work roles; 6. The personal significance of the job; 7. The personality of the industrial manager; 8. The Autoline and Novoplast companies: structure, operations, ideology and personnel institutions; 9. Composition and representativeness of the samples studied; 10. The role of the job and the meanings of work; 11. Evaluations of the job and the employing organisation; 12. The career in retrospect and prospect; 13. The company in the life space; 14. Career concerns and hazards; 15. The technical specialist in the industrial organisation; 16. Advancement within the organisation; 17. Interaction between the executive, his colleagues and his employing organisation; Appendices: 1. Interviewing schedule used with Autoline and Novoplast samples; 2. Characteristic functions of members of sample; 3. Occupations of fathers of men in sample; 4. Descriptive details of men at Autoline and Novoplast; 5. Effects of differences in occupation and education; Author index; Subject index.