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Birth Order & Success in Management Purpose of the Study

Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this project was to establish the relationship between birth order and success in organizational management. Intervening factors such as gender, age, and formal education that affect the relationship between birth order and success in organizational management were included in the analyses. The findings and conclusions of the research study provided information that will help individuals to plan career strategies.

Ornstein (1994, pp. 59-61) reported that birth order can affect personalities. Harrigan and Finch (1992, pp. 66-71) reported that while all seven Mercury astronaughts were first-born children, most comedians were the last-born children in their families. The extension of such findings leads to contentions by some people that birth order can affect achievement in later life (Kessler, 1991, pp. 413-426). The effects that birth order may have on achievement in later life, however, are a matter of both dispute and interpretation (Ghosh, 1989, pp. 90-92). This problem was investigated in this project.

There are many factors that affect organizational success, of which birth order may be one. An investigation of a simple cause and effect relationship between birth order as an independent variable and organizational success as a dependent variable would not provide a valid assessment of the effect of birth order on organizational success because of the other factors involved in organizational success. Therefore, factors with a potential to affect the relationship between birth order and organizational success were included within the scope of the research design for this project. These factors, the effects of which were assessed as intervening variables, were gender, age, formal educational attainment, and organizational longevity.

Based on the project purpose and problem statement, several hypotheses were tested. These hypotheses were as fo...

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