ABSTRACT
Organizational careers guide the person into kinds of interpretations, perspectives, or meanings of his work—his competence, his responsibility, his powers, rights, and privileges, and his identity. They also guide other people's appraisals of the person on these dimensions of careers. In a society where major changes are taking place, the sequence of generations in an office and that of offices in the life of the person are disturbed. In a highly and rigidly structured society, a career consists, objectively, of a series of status and clearly defined offices. They are rather liaison officers between the technical staff, governing boards, and the contributing and clientele publics. Studies of certain other types of careers would likewise throw light on the nature of our institutions— as, for instance, the road to political office by way of fraternal orders, labor unions, and patriotic societies.
