Purpose – This paper extends the debate on gender and career choice using the case study of managers in charity shops … over the last few years, particularly in its effort to professionalize. As a result shop managers' positions have changed … views of current charity shop managers with regard to their career choice and career development issues. Design …

therefore preliminary and may not be representative of mid‐career managers' experience with problematic work role transitions … research on the subject. Practical implications – The study suggested managers moving post in mid‐career bring to their new …

dramatically increased its percentage of female store managers through the implementation of a systematic plan with top management … in a Japanese context: managers cannot be allowed to argue that they are powerless to effect change. Originality …

. Design/methodology/approach – Survey results from a team of fourteen managers are used as a case study, to examine tendencies … with composite profiles of individual managers. Findings – While some of the managers seemed to represent the archetypal … for gender comparisons. Practical implications – These managers had proven success within the same company and a high …

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to compare work values of surviving and non‐surviving managers during a …/methodology/approach – Involving a natural field experiment, data on work values were collected from ethnic Chinese Hong Kong managers employed by …‐survivors. On the other hand, non‐surviving managers attached more importance to responsibility and to have an opportunity to meet …

. Originality/value – Understanding the antecedents, correlates and consequences of people's vocational choice to become managers … will not only help researchers and practitioners and benefit managers, but will improve the understanding of career choice …

Purpose – This study aims to empirically examine the career competencies of global managers having world … in‐depth interviews with 45 global managers, the paper analyzes career stories from a content analysis approach. Data … of global manager. Research limitations/implications – The study is limited by its reliance on global managers' career …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the specific difficulties that senior managers face when employing … expatriate, Chinese and local‐hired foreign managers in China‐based subsidiaries of Western multinational companies (MNCs … with the employment of expatriate, local Chinese, and local‐hired foreign managers in Australian and German subsidiaries in …