Continuity in City-Manager Careers

This report on the city manager is a step in formulating an occupational model. The manager office illuminates the adjustment problems, the individual striving to advande, and occupational group controls. Manager judgments of "moving" and "staving" refer to adjustment processes and individual orientations. Movement per se is subordinate to these. Regulated involvements in local affairs protect the office and enable the manager to define his obligations. Segments in a career can be carved out by conceptualizing tenure in accomplishment units. A "potential to move," as a summary of conditions and processes, combines the segments and is the basis of occupational security and advancement.