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
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
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 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
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
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
Women's collaborative, nurturing management styles are often seen as non‐managerial where an authoritarian, militaristic approach is the dominant style, as authors like Judi Marshall (WiMR Vol 1 No 1) have pointed out. In a Middle‐Eastern nation modelled on Western European lines, bringing together heterogeneous ethnic and cultural groups, Israeli women are now r...... hiện toàn bộ
Aims to present the findings of a recent study into the availability of social support to unemployed female managers. It is widely recognised that social support is an important factor in determining well‐being during unemployment, yet its role in managerial unemployment has received very limited attention. Previous research has demonstrated that social support is of particular importance ...... hiện toàn bộ