... ; Muravyev et al., 2007). Gender Entrepreneurialism Equal opportunities Women workers Gender differences Family-friendly organizations “The world is in the midst of the most dramatic transformation in the nature of work and family since the industrial revolution” (Hill et...

... Employee participation Equal opportunities Gender Homosexuals Organizational culture As Collins (2012) notes, the majority of literature that looks at leadership in terms of opportunity has focused on how current leadership practices and definitions marginalise women. If this is correct...

... Employment Glass ceiling Gender discrimination Flexible working hours Family roles Equal opportunities According to Singh, Kumra and Vinnicombe (1998 cited in Singh and Terjesen, 2008) from an interaction centred viewpoint, women limit their own advancement due to their reluctance to self promote...

... as following: H2a. Hierarchy is positively associated with gender gap. Cross‐cultural studies Gender Equal opportunities Social values As we start the second decade of twenty‐first century, gender‐based inequality continues to be a major preoccupation around the globe. Men...

.... Originality/value The paper offers insights into gender in management, histories and futures. Elaine Swan can be contacted at: Elaine.Swan@uts.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Gender Women Equal opportunities The first editions of this journal, Women in Management...

... be extended from company‐level production processes to federal agency responsibility for ensuring equal opportunity. Whereas companies aim to stabilize and improve their production processes, EEO agencies aim to promote equal opportunity by encouraging and enforcing improvement in employment processes. Just...

... diversity and equal opportunities policies are embedded within policy implementation. Originality/value There is little evidence to date of an accepted theoretical framework to test hypotheses relating to women's participation as expatriates. This paper evaluates the options and presents those...

... as a helpful tool when thinking of organizational practice. Epistemology Gender Equal opportunities Organizational theory Mainstream organization theory is generally poorly equipped for thinking in terms of fluid and fluxing categories (Cooper, 1986 ; Chia, 1999 ; Linstead and Brewis, 2004...

... backgrounds. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Corporate governance Senior management Women Equal opportunities Organizational performance The continuing reliance on male CEOs for board members is increasingly less practical and potentially dilutes quality. Smith et al...

... Limited 2008 Gender Equal opportunities Employment The economics and politics of organization development, and the implications for management development systems and structures are important features that need to be critically evaluated as Europe moves towards greater democratization...

.... The aim of the charter is: […] to ensure that women and men have equal opportunities to pursue management careers, to launch specific, measurable initiatives in companies and organizations so that the proportion of women in management positions at all levels in the organization increases […] ©...

...: opportunities and barriers in changing times ”, Asia Pacific Business Review , Vol. 11 No. 2 , pp. 251 ‐ 66 . Cooke , F.L. (2003), “ Equal opportunities? Women's managerial careers in government organisations in China ”, International Journal of Human Resource Management , Vol. 14 No. 2 , pp...

... and UtilityCo and outline the challenges in keeping gender on the agenda in the first half of the project. Gender Organizational change Action research Equal opportunities This paper explores emerging gender issues in the application of the “dual agenda” model of organisational change in two...

... The organization studied is failing to promote equal opportunities policies and to manage the increasingly diverse academic workforce. Behavioural pressures to conform and parochial and inward looking attitudes appear to prevail. Values‐in‐use and artefacts seem to reflect the assimilation ideals. National origin...

... or provided support for these products or services. Women Career development Equal opportunities Careers Job satisfaction Australia Several factors have come together in making organizations more interested in supporting the career aspirations of professional and managerial women (Burke...

... Publishing Limited 2006 Glass ceilings Women executives Banking Senior managers Gender Equal opportunities In 1990, the concept of glass ceiling pervaded the literature to describe the paucity of women and minorities, heading public and private sector organizations (Maume, 2004...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Women Leadership Boards of directors Equal opportunities Australia The state of women's representation in leadership and decision‐making positions has been a focus of perennial interest in Australia since the first equity review was conducted...

...Adelina Broadbridge; Jeff Hearn; Carol Woodhams; Ben Lupton Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the take up of gender‐based equal opportunities policies and practices in small to medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) and explores the relationship between size and take up within the SME...

...Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Marianne Afanassieva; Beverly Dawn Metcalfe; Marianne Afanassieva Purpose This paper examines gender, work and equal opportunities in central and eastern Europe (CEE) countries. The worker‐mother contract in socialist systems is discussed and reveals how transition from...

... concentrated on the investigation of the sociological issue of the extent to which equal opportunity programmes at the company level have been accomplished in Hungary. The investigations consist of two interrelated parts: questionnaires on women's situation in top management completed by HR departments...