This study examined career transition of senior executives from a strong bureaucratic and structured organization, into a dynamic, turbulent business environment career system. A two stage model is proposed that identifies antecedents to the success of the career succession. A survey of a unique...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss why organizations who are looking for top executives, should enlist former military officers and senior enlisted leaders, who make excellent candidates. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaires with both closed‐ and open‐ended...

This study explores some important aspects of organisational career management (OCM) in Israel. Overall, our data, obtained from 136 large firms, represented by their human resource managers (HRMs), reflect a fairly paternalistic approach to career management; careers are mostly managed by the...