Handbook on women in business and management /

Handbook on women in business and management / edited by Diana Bilimoria and Sandy Kristin Piderit.

This comprehensive handbook presents specially commissioned original essays on the societal roles and contexts facing women in business and management, the specific career and work-life issues of women in these fields, organisational processes affecting women, and the role of women as leaders in bus...

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Other Authors: Bilimoria, Diana, 1960-, Piderit, Sandy Kristin, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2007]
Series:Elgar original reference.
Subjects:
Women executives > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Businesswomen > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: research on women in business and management / Diana Bilimoria and Sandy Kristin Piderit
  • pt. 1. Societal roles and contexts of women in business and management
  • 1. Myths in the media: how the news media portray women in the workforce / Linda M. Dunn-Jensen and Linda K. Stroh
  • 2. Women and invisible social identities: women as the other in organizations / Joy E. Beatty
  • 3. (No) cracks in the glass ceiling: women managers, stress and the barriers to success / Caroline Gatrell and Cary L. Cooper
  • 4. Knowing Lisa?: feminist analyses of 'gender and entrepreneurship' / Marta B. Calas, Linda Smircich and Kristina A. Bourne
  • pt. 2. Career and work-life issues of women in business and management
  • 5. Career development of managerial women: attracting and managing talent / Ronald J. Burke
  • 6. Women and success: dilemmas and opportunities / Margaret M. Hopkins and Deborah A. O'Neil
  • 7. Mentoring as a career development tool: gender, race and ethnicity implications / Helen M. Woolnough and Marilyn J. Davidson
  • 8. Integration of career and life / Mireia Las Heras and Douglas T. Hall
  • 9. Balance, integration and harmonization: selected metaphors for managing the parts and the whole of living / Sandy Kristin Piderit
  • pt. 3. Organizational processes affecting women in business and management
  • 10. Sex, sex similarity and sex diversity effects in teams: the importance of situational factors / Laura M. Graves and Gary N. Powell
  • 11. Influence and inclusion: a framework for researching women's advancement in organizations / Diana Bilimoria, Lindsey Godwin and Deborah Dahlen Zelechowski
  • 12. effectiveness of human resource management practices for promoting women's careers / Alison M. Konrad
  • pt. 4. Women as leaders in business and management
  • 13. Leadership style matters: the small, but important, style differences between male and female leaders / Alice H. Eagly and Mary C. Johannesen-Schmidt
  • 14. Women advancing onto the corporate board / Val Singh, Susan Vinnicombe and Siri Terjesen
  • 15. One world: women leading and managing worldwide/ Nancy J. Adler.

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