Yehuda Baruch Discusses Organizational Career Systems

Managing Career Systems: Channeling the Flow of Executive Careers, by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, Inc., 1984, 942 pp., $27.95

Human Resource Management ◽

10.1002/hrm.3930260212 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 291-295

Author(s):

Barbara S. Lawrence

Keyword(s):

Career Systems ◽

Executive Careers

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Regular Career Systems II

Annals of Systems Research ◽

10.1007/978-1-4613-4074-4_3 ◽

1977 ◽

pp. 35-47

Author(s):

Henk Koppelaar ◽

Dirk Kruijt

Keyword(s):

Career Systems

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Political Responsiveness and Neutral Competence in the Developing Countries

Review of Public Personnel Administration ◽

10.1177/0734371x8800800206 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 66-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Richard C. Kearney

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Costa Rica ◽

Dominican Republic ◽

Evaluative Criterion ◽

Career Systems ◽

Effective Development ◽

Point Of Departure

This article examines the role of merit-based career systems in developing countries. Using the neutral competence/political responsiveness paradigm as a point of departure, the author analyzes the experiences of two countries, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. A predictable conclusion emerges, i.e., that a rational-legal bureaucratic model is preferable to any known alternative when efficient and effective development administration is the evaluative criterion.

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