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The main aim of this project was the extension of an early stage database on managerial careers from years three to five of a planned 20-year study, and the preliminary analysis of career issues affecting subjects in the database. Specific objectives were: to track managerial careers longitudinally, in order to identify systematic patterns of job change and mobility, selection and de-selection, and new forms of work; to link management education to subsequent career success by examining the relationship between performance at business school and subsequent on-the-job performance; to track, and seek patterns of, individual satisfaction with training, work, overall career, and life outside work, in particular work-family and work-health trade-offs. The dataset contains data collected through annual surveys in 1997 and 1998 (continuing on from previous surveys in 1994, 1995 and 1996), as a result of the building/expansion of the longitudinal database on a panel of MBA graduates.

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The data covers demographics, performance, career history, satsifaction history, learning orientation, attitudes, and non-work activity history* (items marked * were asked each year). In addition, subjects were asked to provide answers to open-ended questions each year, including the reasons for job change, their most significant sources of satisfaction, and the most significant events in their lives in the past 12 months.

Volunteer sample

Postal survey