... faced during her efforts to advance from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor to Full Professor and the lessons learnt along the way. Findings The goal is to illuminate: the impact of personality and communication style on career advancement for Black women in academe, the feelings...

...Mary Barrett Purpose Barrett compared the perceptions of female management students and senior female managers about effective and probable workplace communication strategies, and the extent to which each group's perceptions were influenced by gender norms in communication. The purpose...

...Mary Barrett Purpose Changing language ideology and the decreased popularity of overt feminism suggest that aspiring female managers may be less influenced than senior women managers by the gender of the speaker in evaluating whether specific communication strategies are effective and probable...

...Mary Barrett The paper discusses some gender debates in linguistic behaviour and suggests how scenario‐based research techniques may contribute. It then presents a survey‐based study of 157 Australian female, organisationally senior, managers. For each of three workplace communication dilemmas...

...) and the interpretation of communication on which the book is founded. A superficial distinction is drawn between leaders and managers, implicit in which is the assumption] that we know what is meant by leadership and, further, that we know what is meant by management. What is more, the answer is simple: “managers...