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The Reluctant Job Changer - Studies in Work Attachments and Aspirations (Hardcover)
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The Reluctant Job Changer - Studies in Work Attachments and Aspirations (Hardcover)
Series: Anniversary Collection
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What keeps people in jobs or occupations is the central theme of
four studies that interpret workers' attitudes toward job-changing
in the light of their work experience as well as their expectations
for the future. Gladys Palmer, in collaboration with Herbert S.
Parnes of Ohio State University and Richard C. Wilcock of the
University of Illinois, has experimented in the key study with
analyses designed to measure the strength of a person's attachment
to his or her occupation or employer. Attitude questions are given
a time dimension by checking them against the job histories of
individual workers and by including evaluations of crucial job
decisions in the past. The effect of private pension plans upon the
inclination to change jobs is examined by Parnes, with surprising
results. A third study, by Carol P. Brainerd, considers the impact
of the search for economic security on a highly skilled group by
tracing changes over thirty years in the way toolmakers move
between jobs and in the methods of training them. Mary W. Herman
uses both America and European materials to analyze the connection
between the ideas of social class, work attitude, aspirations for
moving up the social scale, and the amount that actually occurs
between different levels of skill. The volume emphasizes the work
experience and attitudes of male production workers in the stable
period of their working lives, when family responsibilities are
usually heavy. At the same points, however, it also covers women
workers and the full range of age groups in the adult population.
In the concluding chapter, Palmer brings the findings together,
examines their implications for understanding the complex factors
that determine individual movements in the labor market, and
assesses the various attitude measures developed as predictors of
attachment or mobility. Materials, sources, and technical aspects
of the analysis are discussed in four appendices. These studies
have both practical appeal and research interest. Personnel
workers, guidance counselors, employment specialists, and others
involved in the everyday workings of the labor market will
appreciate the insights into worker attitudes and behavior, while
the analysis of institutional force and of motivations and trends
in mobility will interest labor economists and sociologists, as
well as technicians in the field of attitude research. Founded in
1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit
has a long record of publication and research in the labor market,
productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major
Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects
are completed. This volume is Study no. 40.
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