Living With Technology: Issues at Mid-Career (Classic Reprint)

Lotte Bailyn, Edgar Henry Schein

ISBN 10: 133482536X / ISBN 13: 9781334825361

Published by Forgotten Books, 2024

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Print on Demand. This book presents findings from a wide-ranging study that explores the careers and workplace experiences of a large group of alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The alumni studied graduated in the 1950s, making the book an especially valuable record of career paths and professional experiences during a time of major technological and social change. Crucially, the study was able to categorize two distinct career patternsā "one based in engineering with a focus on organizational advancement, and the other based in science with a focus on intrinsic job characteristics such as intellectual challenge and making meaningful contributions. The book delves into the values, motivations, and experiences of individuals within these two distinct career patterns, examining how their MIT education and early career experiences influenced their subsequent career paths. An important takeaway from the book is that occupational roles and career paths for technically trained people have become more diverse, and organizations must adapt to manage these diverse career paths more effectively. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Living With Technology: Issues at Mid-Career (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 133482536X
• ISBN 13: 9781334825361
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: print-on-demand item
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Synopsis

This book presents findings from a wide-ranging study that explores the careers and workplace experiences of a large group of alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The alumni studied graduated in the 1950s, making the book an especially valuable record of career paths and professional experiences during a time of major technological and social change. Crucially, the study was able to categorize two distinct career patterns—one based in engineering with a focus on organizational advancement, and the other based in science with a focus on intrinsic job characteristics such as intellectual challenge and making meaningful contributions. The book delves into the values, motivations, and experiences of individuals within these two distinct career patterns, examining how their MIT education and early career experiences influenced their subsequent career paths. An important takeaway from the book is that occupational roles and career paths for technically trained people have become more diverse, and organizations must adapt to manage these diverse career paths more effectively.

About the Author

Lotte Bailyn is the T Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, Emerita, at the MIT Sloan School of Managemen. She is the author of Living with Technology: Issues at Mid-Career and coauthor of Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance.