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Broken ladders : managerial careers in the new economy / edited by Paul Osterman.
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English
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
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xii, 259 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
HD38.2 .O88 1996
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Broken Ladders reports on the employment security, advancement prospects skills, and wages of managers in a wide range of firms and industries. These cases show that one myth - that the number of managers is declining - is wrong. But the job tenure of middle managers is more precarious. They can no longer expect steady promotions up the ladder, nor can they expect life-time employment with the same firm. New organizational designs demand new skills from managers and Broken Ladders describes what these are. On another front, managerial pay has not declined at the same rate as other workers. However, the pay gap between senior and middle managers has widened. Given job insecurity and growing pay inequality firms confront a difficult dilemma: how to maintain the commitment of their managers at the same time that the employers are reducing their commitment to their employees.
Broken Ladders will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of human resources, labor economics, career development, and organizational behavior. It will also be important reading for managers and strategic planners who have to take account of the changing nature of employment.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Paul Osterman
Corporate restructuring and the restructured world of senior management / Michael Useem
From bureaucracy to enterprise? : the changing jobs and careers of managers in telecommunications service / Rosemary Batt
Automotive white-collar : the changing status and roles of salaried employees in the North American auto industry / John Paul MacDuffie
Management jobs in the insurance industry : organizational deskilling and rising pay inequity / Elizabeth D. Scott, K.C. O'Shaughnessy, Peter Cappelli
Evolution of management roles in a networked organization : an insider's view of the Hewlett-Packard Company / Sara L. Beckman
Redefining success : ethnographic observations on the careers of technicians / Stacia E. Zabusky, Stephen R. Barley
Human resources practices and the demographic transformation of professional labor markets / Renée M. Landers, James B. Rebitzer, Lowell J. Taylor.
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ISBN
0195093534 ((alk. paper))
9780195093537 ((alk. paper))
9786610441969
6610441960
LCCN
96025776
OCLC
34943287
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