ABSTRACT
The growth of management and large-scale organizations during the twentieth century has been one of the more significant features of modern society. This chapter briefly reviews the ways in which organizational restructuring, the emergence of more rapidly changing economies, and the implementation of different forms of 'new' technology are changing the work tasks of many managers' working relationships and personal lifestyles. Like most other employees, managers are likely to be more rigorously appraised and, as a result, more prone to occupational risk and redundancy. Their jobs, careers and employment prospects are characterized by greater uncertainties and these, in turn, are likely to be having important implications for their attitudes and personal lifestyles. The wider implications of career pursuit for family and other personal relations became increasingly the focus of attention in the late 1960s as managers' emotional relationships with their wives and children became recognized as more distant.
