Effects of Changing Economic Conditions on Managerial Job Changes and Careers

SUMMARY Career theories and popular beliefs support the view that careers are series of job changes which are normatively linked to common themes, are continuous, are hierarchically progressive, and are under the control of the career‐making person. This study reports an age‐controlled analysis of the job changes, from 1980 to 1992, of a sample of 832 UK managers, randomly sampled from the membership of the Institute of Management. Following the...