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fewer gender stereotypes. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Schein Descriptive Index, three groups of university … sample as an important element when studying gender bias in management. Given the state of the economy and the cuts to …
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of certain factors (such as working mothers’ attitudes towards career role salience, notion of career success, work-life balance and the impact of organisational support systems available for childcare) on career persistence, despite...
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gender-diversified top management teams and have implications for firms that could benefit from a greater variety of problem … contextual variables in an experimental framework is a new approach in gender studies. Based on this approach, novel and …
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diversity in thinking about gender in management and welcomes papers from all academic disciplines which can contribute to …
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Purpose – Retailing as a sector employs many women and serves a female‐dominated customer base. It also employs proportionately more women in management positions than in other occupational sectors. However, at senior levels, the proportion of women to men diminishes. This paper aims to...
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Purpose – The study sets out to examine how male and female managers in general and male and female municipal executives in particular are evaluated by the members of the organisation. Design/methodology/approach – The study presented used the methodology of focus group discussion. Findings...
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resource (HR) directors vary cross‐nationally and how gender egalitarian cultural values affect role differences between female … based on the 2004 Cranet survey. Findings – Consistent with the hypotheses, gender egalitarian values reduce sex … directors. The effects of gender egalitarian values have greater impact on reducing vertical differences than horizontal …
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advantage in evaluations of transformational leaders, especially when women are the evaluators. Extension of theories of gender …
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carried out to explore overall data for board membership related to gender, resulting in a new typology to describe firms with …/implications – The study suggests that at the rate of progress achieved over the 2003‐2005 period, it will be the year 2225 before gender … balance in company directorships is achieved in the UK. The study was based on Companies House data, where gender is a self …
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Purpose – This paper has two‐fold objectives: first, it presents female managers' experience with family‐work dilemma. Second, it examines the priorities married female managers assign to the commitments of their dual roles and the support they received from their organizations....
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