Career Success and Personal Failure: Alienation in Professionals and Managers
- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- Published by Academy of Management in The Academy of Management Journal
- Vol. 24 (2) , 342-360
- https://doi.org/10.5465/255846
Abstract
Expectancy disconfirmation, contradictory role demands, sense of external control, loss of affiliative satisfactions, and developmental life changes are proposed as significant factors in the personal and social alienation among professionals and managers. The research findings generally support the proposed framework.Keywords
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