A model of professional deviant/adaptive career behaviors is presented to clarify the negative behavioral effects experienced by some salaried professionals and proposed as being caused by conflicting expectations with their management. The nature of and precursors to these conflicting...

Discusses dual ladder programs in which professionals may choose either the technical ladder or the managerial ladder, both having comparable prestige in terms of salary, status, and responsibility. It is suggested that the dual ladder concept is a viable one; its principal pitfalls are the...