Attitudes of managers who are more or less career plateaued

This study investigated demographic and attitudinal differences across mana gers classified as nonplateaued, content plateaued, hierarchically plateaue d, or both content and hierarchically plateaued. The results revealed signi ficant demographic differences across the 4 groups on a variety of variable s. Managers who were classified as both hierarchically and job content plat eaued tended to report less favorable job attitudes than managers who were plateaued for one reason only or managers who were nonplateaued. Managers w ho were only job content plateaued tended to report less favorable job atti tudes than managers who were only hierarchically plateaued.