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- Title
The Structure of Opportunity: How Promotion Ladders Vary within and among Organizations.
- Authors
Baron, James N.; Davis-Blake, Alison; Bielby, William T.
- Abstract
This paper analyzes data describing jobs in 100 establishments in order to test hypotheses about the characteristics of jobs and organizations associated with the structure of internal promotion ladders. The diversity of labor market arrangements found within the organizations indicates only weak support for hypotheses linking internal labor markets to organizational or sectoral imperatives. At the job level, however, there is support for hypotheses linking job ladders to firm-specific skills, organizational structure, gender distinctions, technology, occupational differentiation, the institutional environment, and the interests of unions. The paper concludes with an examination of how promotion ladders are formed from clusters of jobs associated with each other by occupation, skill, or gender composition.
- Subjects
PERSONNEL management; ORGANIZATIONAL structure; CAREER development; DECISION making; PERSONNEL changes; EMPLOYEE promotions; LABOR market; JOB skills; EMPLOYEE retention; JOB satisfaction; HIERARCHIES; OCCUPATIONAL mobility
- Publication
Administrative Science Quarterly, 1986, Vol 31, Issue 2, p248
- ISSN
0001-8392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2392790