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Women and men in senior management – a “different needs” hypothesisWhilst agreeing wholeheartedly that a “glass ceiling” exists and restricts entry of women into senior management positions, this article postulates that this factor only partly explains why there are fewer women in senior level management positions than there are men. Suggests that some women are less interested than men in reaching senior management ranks. It is proposed that differences ... ...
Tập 16 Số 8 - Trang 400-404 - 2001
Gendered heroes: male and female self‐representations of executive identityOfficial organisational myths and storytelling constitute a powerful, persuasive force in both the public representation and the internal shaping of executive identity. Leaders of corportate culture are aligned with legendary heroes to promote images of the senior manager as a heroic and transformational leader. This process plays upon subconscious images, beliefs and expectations to reinf... ...
Tập 17 Số 3/4 - Trang 142-150 - 2002
WOMEN AND MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING: THE “GLASS CEILING” FOR WOMEN’S CAREERSConsiders some of the problems which management presents for
women′s careers in professional engineering. Using careers history data
from 15 women engaged in professional engineering work in a high
technology industrial organization, certain aspects of their promotion
progress are examined. The interaction of aspects such as the women′s
aspirations and certain organizational processes were... ...
Tập 8 Số 7 - 1993
WOMEN MANAGERS AND CAREER PROGRESSION: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCEWomen in the UK do not achieve promotion into management as readily
as men. Their careers are slower even at early career stages. This
appears to be due to a range of factors including the concentration of
women in support functions and in specialist roles. Women may also be
less likely to put themselves forward for promotion and to suffer
discrimination through a combination of implicitly... ...
Tập 6 Số 2 - 1991
Female part‐time workers' experiences of occupational mobility in the UK service industryPurpose This purpose of this paper it to explore the extent to which female part‐time workers experience occupational mobility in UK service sector firms, particularly promotional opportunities, since the implementation of the Part‐time Workers' Directive in 2000. hiện toàn bộ
Tập 22 Số 4 - Trang 305-318 - 2007
Gender on the agenda 2: unlearning gender blindness in management educationThis paper argues that UK business and management schools continue to operate a gender blind approach (or at best gender neutral) to management education, research and the development of management theory. This echoes a pattern repeated in the practice of management, which closes down and inhibits opportunities for management to be “done differently” and for organizations to be different. ... ...
Tập 19 Số 6 - Trang 293-303 - 2004
Constraints to women’s involvement in agricultural leadershipThis paper uses data from a survey of women in the Australian sugar industry to examine why women are absent in decision‐making positions within the agri‐political organization Canegrowers. Canegrowers represents the interests of over 6,000 cane farming families in Australia, but no woman holds any of the 181 positions of elected leadership within the organization. Factor analysis of the 2... ...
Tập 17 Số 6 - Trang 276-284 - 2002
What Exactly Are The Differences in Male and Female Working Styles?Women have different managerial styles than men: they are more co‐operative, prefer creative involvement to administrative disengagement and are personal rather than detached … or such are the stereotypes. Now Dr Susan Vinnicombe has something more substantial to say about women's different qualities as managers. She reports here on research she conducted at Cran... ...
Tập 3 Số 1 - Trang 13-21 - 1988
All managers under the skin: how women can learn to act like successful managers without losing their own identitiesOne of the challenges to women entering management today is that the role models available to them are predominantly male. Just as an Englishman learning, say, Italian solely from an Italian woman would acquire the mannerisms and behaviour patterns of an Italian woman, so what women managers learn is inappropriate for their role in society. Learning by a kind of osmosis from role models is... ...
Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 183-188 - 1987