CAREER PLATEAU AND WORK ATTITUDES - AN EMPIRICAL-STUDY OF MANAGERS

This study examines the effect of objective and subjective career plat eau on the attitudes and behavior at work of a population of 2183 mana gers from three sectors of the Canada economy. Our study corroborates others that have found that ''plateaued'' and ''non-plateaued'' indivi duals respond differently to their work environment. Our results indic ate that career plateau is associated with a number of consequences, o nce we have controlled for the effects of a number of personal charact eristics such as age, sex, education, seniority and hierarchical level . The study also shows that the explanatory power of the subjective ca reer plateau is significantly greater than that of objective career pl ateau. The explained variance in reactions is increased by at most 1% with the introduction of objective plateau for career satisfaction, wh ile introducing subjective plateau into the model has the effect of in creasing its explanatory power by 12%.