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PRESENTATION Organizational Perspectives on Stratification Organizations impinge on career outcomes in two important ways: 1) The division of labor among jobs and organizations generates a distribution of opportunities and rewards that often antedates the hiring of people to fill those jobs. 2) Organization procedures for matching workers to jobs affect the distribution of rewards and opportunities within and across firms and thus influence the likelihood of career success Why Some Firms Pay and Promote More than Others - ''Older approaches'': human capital, status attainment -more recent approach: internal labor markets INTERNAL LABOR MARKET: Competing Interpretations 1) Labor economists emphasize technical determinants: technological progress increases workers' skill monopoly in the firm and that internal advancement opportunities are required so that senior workers will train junior personnel 2) Williamson emphasizes informational constraints that favor internal labor promotion hierarchies over perfectly competitive labor market. 3) Neo-Marxists regarded internal labor markets as an effort by capitalists to control a volatile work force. Researchers...

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