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Women and men in senior management – a “different needs” hypothesis
Tập 16 Số 8 - Trang 400-404 - 2001
Victoria J. O’Connor
Whilst 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 ...... hiện toàn bộ
Gendered heroes: male and female self‐representations of executive identity
Tập 17 Số 3/4 - Trang 142-150 - 2002
Su Olsson
Official 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...... hiện toàn bộ
WOMEN AND MANAGEMENT IN ENGINEERING: THE “GLASS CEILING” FOR WOMEN’S CAREERS
Tập 8 Số 7 - 1993
Julia Evetts
Considers 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...... hiện toàn bộ
WOMEN MANAGERS AND CAREER PROGRESSION: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE
Tập 6 Số 2 - 1991
Charles Jackson, Wendy Hirsh
Women 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...... hiện toàn bộ
Female part‐time workers' experiences of occupational mobility in the UK service industry
Tập 22 Số 4 - Trang 305-318 - 2007
JenniferTomlinson
PurposeThis 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
Gender on the agenda 2: unlearning gender blindness in management education
Tập 19 Số 6 - Trang 293-303 - 2004
SharonMavin, PatriciaBryans, TeresaWaring
This 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. ...... hiện toàn bộ
Venus envy 2
- 2006
SharonMavin
PurposeUsing an alternative lens to challenge assumptions of solidarity behaviour and the queen bee label, the paper aims to analyse empirical data to explore negative relations between women in management and surface processes of female misogyny.Desi...... hiện toàn bộ
What Exactly Are The Differences in Male and Female Working Styles?
Tập 3 Số 1 - Trang 13-21 - 1988
SusanVinnicombe
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...... hiện toàn bộ
How to undo men's gender conditioning
Tập 2 Số 4 - Trang 223-231 - 1987
MichaelSimmons
Questioning traditional male values at work began in the women's movement. But as books like C. Brooklyn Derr's Managing the New Careerists (reviewed on p253) show, men themselves are now questioning their roles at work and reassessing the relative importance of the various facets which make up their lives.
Using an employee attitude survey to understand level playing‐field issues
Tập 10 Số 7 - Trang 15-20 - 1995
Ronald J.Burke
Describes a consulting project in which survey data were analysed to further an organization′s understanding of level playing‐field issues. Data were collected from 1,608 women and men employed by a single large professional services firm, using questionnaires completed anonymously. Only 5 per cent of the partners of the firm were women, though half of new professional hires from universit...... hiện toàn bộ