This thesis explores the issue of why female managers’ commitment is so often reportedas being less of that of males, despite research evidence that there is no genderdifference in levels of commitment. No previous research was found which reportedmanagerial meanings of “commitment”,...

A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...

A number of practitioner surveys across a range of industries have cited the lack ofsenior female role models as a barrier to career progression. There is very littleacademic literature to explain this at a senior organizational level. An initial review ofthe extant role model literature led to...

A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from forty-three...

The aim of this research is to explore sex differences in undergraduates’ choices ofpotential employers. It focuses on a major employer (‘the Firm’), wishing to increasethe number of job applications it receives from female undergraduates, and comprisesthree linked projects. No previous...

Recent decades have seen a sustained growth of interest from academics andpracticing managers in structural change in the contemporary workplace. Someof this attention has been directed at the implementation of initiatives ofplanned organizational change, often involving newer information...