| Description: |
Following on from the successful Women in Management: Current Research Issues, this volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of current international research findings pertaining to women in management, reflecting recent global changes and issues.Like its predecessor, this volume brings together an international group of eminent academics, who review the major contemporary issues facing women in management, as well as the individual, organizational, and governmental consequences of these changes.Women in Management: Current Issues in Research II will be a vital resource for scholars and students in management, business, occupational psychology, industrial sociology, and gender studies. In addition, related work groups such as Personnel, Occupational Management, Management Consultants, and Trainers, as well as Trade Unionists should find this book essential to read. |
| Synopsis: |
Praise for the First Volume:`This is a really important book for anyone who wants to find research references on equal opportunities for women in management' - Management in Education `I commend this book to managers of both sexes in the public and private sectors. There is much to stimulate effective action. Hopefully researchers will also heed the call for further studies' - Women in Management Review`I must first of all commend this volume as a very useful resource for women who are actually grappling with being managers, and for researchers in the field' - International Review of Women and LeadershipThe second volume of the successful Women in Management: Current Ressearch Issues provides an up-to-date review of findings pertaining to women in management, reflecting recent global changes.An international group of contributors examines a broad range of contemporary issues facing women in management, as well as the individual, organizational and governmental consequences of these changes. Key topics covered include: global perspectives on women in busines career development issues including discussions of highflyers, networking and leadership; race and gender; the future of the glass ceiling; the increasingly popular 'management of diversity' approach; masculinity of management issues; future organizational and governmental initiatives on women in management. |