The Expert Career

The Expert Career is an attempt to better understand the nature of career paths for highly specialized experts who chose a non-managerial career. 

It analyzes past dual ladder career theories as well other existing career alternatives for experts and assesses their effectiveness to organizations and employees. It further includes an empirical study with unprecedented data of 140 companies that tests existing expert careers. Based on the findings of this study, this book presents a new theory of the expert career and its resulting alternatives for companies. “Expert Career” explores topics such as organizational form, scopes for design, ways of implementation and success rates of existing programs.