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lockstep career progression  

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  • Karl Ulrich Mayer describes institutional careers as the orderly flow of persons through segmented institutions. A number of scholars have pointed to occupational careers as providing the organizational blueprint for the adult life course, which begins with a period of education, followed by years of productive work (often in a series of related jobs) and then retirement. [Source: Encyclopedia of Career Development; Lockstep Career Progression]

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