Over the last 20 years the number of professional managers displaced from UScorporate jobs has increased dramatically. This has coincided with the rapidexpansio... » 

Over the last 20 years the number of professional managers displaced from UScorporate jobs has increased dramatically. This has coincided with the rapidexpansion of employment in the US nonprofit sector a sector that has a highproportion of managerial and professional workers among its employees.BRSTRONGWorkforce Transitions from the Profit to the Nonprofit SectorSTRONGexamines the career sequences of dislocated whitecollar corporate managers whowant to move to the nonprofit sector. It highlights the managers motivationsthe structural barriers which prevented them from making the transition andthe methods of penetrating the barriers. It uncovers the reasons why somecorporate managers are able to make the transition and why others do not.Finally it presents the methods of adaptation that were utilized in their newenvironments. BRThis volume will be of interest to human resource managers inthe profit and nonprofit sectors sociologists occupational researchers andorganizational psychologists. «