Informal Factors in Career Achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2203172 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melville Dalton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1951 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 407-415 |
| Publication date | 1951-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/220786 |
| OpenAlex | W1996246915 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Study of 226 careers in a managerial hierarchy revealed no formal pattern of selection and promotion in terms of age at entry, rate of advancement, occupational experience, or type of educational training. But informal processes of selection appeared to function significantly through the use of such criteria as religion, ethnic composition, political belief, and participation in accepted organizations
Composition (language) · Ethnic composition · Ethnic group · Function (biology) · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Sociology · Computer Science · Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Psychology · Social Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in MENA
Estructuras y significados de trayectorias manageriales en grandes empresas argentinas
Needed Research in Social Psychology on Problems of War and Peace
Functional and Conflict Theories of Educational Stratification
Performance, Achievement, and Success in Psychological Research
Postface
Career success, mobility and extrinsic satisfaction of corporate managers
Styles of Leadership
Bureaaucratic Politics
Schlüsselwerke der Organisationsforschung
Work Uncertainty and the Promotion of Professional Women
Bureaucratization of the Meiji State
Career Attainment in Canadian Bureaucracies
Organizational Career Mobility
The Making of the Postwar Working Class
La división sexual del trabajo de mando
Patterns of Promotion
Role-Allocation Processes in Public Bureaucracies
Differential Job Change and Stability among Academic Administrators
The Social Anthropology of American Industry
Female and Minority Employment Patterns in Banks
Ethnicity and Status Attainment
Organizational Careers
Social Distance Strategies and Status Symbols
Dynamic models and attainment in the workplace
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 1954 - 2024 (71) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |