... aims to investigate the factors that contribute to workplace empowerment for women in the Qatari public sector. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore workplace empowerment among female civil servants in the State of Qatar. The study combines surveys...

...Kerry Brown; Stacy Ridge Steady progress has been achieved with implementing legislated public sector equal employment opportunities (EEO) policies and programs to fulfil the aim of increasing the representation of EEO groups in public employment. However, there remain areas of significant gender...

... of job satisfaction. This study differs from previous investigations of job satisfaction in two principal ways: in dealing with the public sector (rather than the more common private sector in studies of the Middle East), in incorporating the environment as well as traditional culture in the public...

..., identifying new recruitment and assessment criteria that is critical to transformation. The public sector in particular will wither away into private venture if transformational leadership does not quickly take root. Past wisdom must not be a constraint but something to be challenged. Yesterday’s success...

... --> Gender Public sector Organizational change Management styles Challenging Women – Gender, Culture and Organisation was ten years in the making. As such, it provides a powerful insight into changes in political ideology over that period and into how those changes impacted both on women...

... wage differences are only partially explained by occupational and managerial level variations: taking into account the above variables, gender remains the major determinant of wages for both private and public sector employees. This myth is now challenged in two major ways. First, the alleged...

..., to be critically examined in the context of the further destruction of professional opportunities for women in radically re‐engineered public sectors, aggressively “micro‐economized” labour forces and rapidly dissipating organizational and social contracts. The median employment tenure of all US workers is just...

... of directors in New Zealand and compares the progress of women on the boards of corporate companies in the private sector with those on crown company boards in the public sector. While increasing numbers of New Zealand women are entering the business arena, they continue to be underrepresented...

... of Public Sector Utility to examine how the restructuring of a public sector bureaucracy over a five‐year period affected the careers of women managers. Finds that although restructuring at PSU has opened up opportunities for women through an increase in the number of managerial jobs and through changes...

... narratives. Raises questions about women managers′relationship to the transition from welfare to market values in the public sector in Britain. Evaluates the empowerment of women in management in the context of understanding the complex relationships between institutional, personal and interpersonal barriers...