ABSTRACT
In accordance with Edgar Schein's (1978) concept of "stages of career cycle," the career histories of our thirty-six alumni may be divided into three stages: early, middle, and late. The early career stage consists of exploration and trial substages. The rnid-career stage consists of stabilization and rnid-career crisis substages. The late career stage consists of maintenance and decline substages. These three stages roughly correspond to the four distinct periods in the development of the Japanese economy. As shown in Table 6.1, the rnid-career stage covers two subperiods, 1974-80 and 1981-90.
