Men in mid-career : a study of British managers and technical specialists

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Men in mid-career : a study of British managers and technical specialists

Cyril Sofer

(Cambridge studies in sociology, 4)

Cambridge University Press, 1970

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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.

Table of Contents

  • 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.

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