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management and women’s careers. It reveals the factors that continue to be problematic for women’s careers and why in 2010 they … women’s continued under-representation in retail management positions is gained. The overall findings from the papers … indicated that the main reasons for women’s and men’s differential experience in the retail management hierarchy can be located …
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PurposeRetailing 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 article examines the perceived facilitators and problems of senior retail managers’ career …
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It is a well documented fact that there are few women in top executive positions in business organizations. In this … research I examine the effect of having women in top executive positions on an organization’s human qualities (such as being … compelling evidence on the impact of women in top executive positions on an organization’s softer, human qualities, and on the …
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methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this … public sector and the nation. Beginning with a labor situation in which women did the majority of computing work, and …
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Research shows that larger, more profitable and more visible companies are less likely to disclose internal control weaknesses. Firms with similar characteristics tend to hire more female board members. This paper examines whether there is an association between companies that have a higher...
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management careers over the past eight years. Design/methodology/approach - Interviews were conducted with 19 male and 11 female … on future aspirations for promotion. Findings - Results indicated gender differences in outcome of promotion, in both … proportions of women achieving senior roles, and the time it took for males and females to obtain these promotions with more male …
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Women constitute only approximately 3-5 per cent of Australian senior managers. One possible explanation of their … failure to enter senior management in greater numbers is that women in management may have differing perceptions of the … Australian middle managers, whose views were contrasted with senior managers? perceptions. Gender differences in perception were …
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boundaries, as individuals make the transition from corporate careers to starting their own businesses. Answering calls for more …-four men and women who recently left management positions to pursue entrepreneurial career paths. Building on a social capital … multiple mentors and for gender differences in the patterns of these mentoring relationships. This study has important …
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Delayering and the flattening of organizational hierarchies was a widespread trend through the 1990s. Peters (1992) in the USA promoted flattening as an organizational strategy and Keuning and Opheij (1994) promoted the prescriptions in Europe. Despite these strategies and apparent structural...
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