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The Management Ladder for Recent Engineering Graduates in Canada

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  • Marie Lavoie

    (Applied Research Branch, Human Resources Development Canada, Canada)

  • Ross Finnie

    (School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6, Canada;
    Visiting Scholar, Statistics Canada, (Business and Labour Market Analysis Division), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0T6, Canada)

Abstract

Engineers play a crucial role in the growing complexity of the innovation process and in an economy's national system of innovation. This paper focuses on the role of engineers as managers. It is based on the understanding that the rising technical complexily of the activities of most enterprises and the central role of technology to economic performance has made it increasingly important to bring engineers into all levels of management activities. We use longitudinal data on three recent cohorts of Canadian engineering graduates to document the extent and nature of the flows into engineering and non-engineering management positions, and to compare various outcomes (earnings levels, job satisfaction, skill use and overall evaluation of the educational programme) associated with these different career paths using both static and dynamic perspectives. We are thus able to assess the general attractiveness of the management ladder for engineering graduates and identify some implications of the outcomes for the accumulation of technology.

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  • Marie Lavoie & Ross Finnie, 1998. "The Management Ladder for Recent Engineering Graduates in Canada," International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(03), pages 255-280.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijimxx:v:02:y:1998:i:03:n:s1363919698000122
    DOI: 10.1142/S1363919698000122
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