Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. The Talented and Their Work -- 2. The Participants -- 3. Profile of the Group -- 4. The Shaping of a Career -- 5. Patterns of Career Development -- 6. Measures of Success -- 7. Value Orientations -- 8. Work Satisfactions -- 9. Self-Realization -- 10. Life...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- People and Jobs -- 1. The Pluralistic Economy of the United States -- 2. Whatever Happened to Ma, Pa, and the Kids? -- 3. Career Women and Urban Revival -- 4. The Job Problem -- II. Education and Work: Critical Links -- 5. Minorities and the...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One -- I. Merchants and Knaves -- II. Farmers and Gentlemen -- III. The Laboring Poor -- IV. Big But Bad Business -- V. The Costs of Evil -- VI. The Learned and the Pious -- VII. A Better World for All -- Part Two -- VIII. False Prophets...

A study on the economic growth and the employment opportunities for minorities in America during the twentieth century. Specifically examines the changes in employment patterns, growth and decline of occupational fields, the social and economic changes towards racial equality, the role and...

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I: DESIGN OF THE STUDY -- Chapter 1. THE PROBLEM OF OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE -- Chapter 2. IN SEARCH OF AN APPROACH -- Chapter 3. CURRENT THEORIES OF OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE -- Chapter 4. FRAMEWORK OF A DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY -- Chapter 5. THE CASE MATERIALS --...

This paper outlines a programme of concept development, research and application on the career motivation of young managers. An assessment centre was used to evaluate dimensions of career motivation. The results were corroborated by other research data and suggested the need for considering...

Assessment centres do work, predicting success in management very well; however, the inclusion of non‐ability characteristics would enrich assessment centre research. Moving into the personality/motivation area may require some special steps in staffing of assessment centres, with qualified...

In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their professional development, while offering insight into their lives and philosophies. With candor and humor they relate how they came to the field of economics, as well as how their views have evolved over the years.