Description
Book SynopsisThis 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, organizational processes affecting women, and the role of women as leaders in business and management. The essays shed light on the extant structures and practices of society and organizations that constrain or facilitate women's representation, treatment, quality of life, and success.
Despite decades of ongoing inquiry and increasing interest, research on women in business and management remains a specialized field without mainstream acceptance within business and management disciplines. The Handbook presents the current state of knowledge about women in business and management and specifies the directions for future research likely to be most constructive for advancing the representation, treatment, quality of life, and success of women who work in these fields. It provides the foundations for improved societal and organizational structures, policies, and relational practices affecting all in business and management. Thus, by enhancing the knowledge base that improves the work and life situations of women, it suggests ways to elevate the societal and organizational systems for all.
The Handbook will be an essential reference source for recent advances in research and theory, informing both scholars of organization studies, gender, diversity, and feminism; human resource specialists; and educators of and consultants to business organizations and management.
Trade Review'This very impressive Handbook
takes established research topics about women in management and treats them in fresh and novel ways. The chapters are intellectually interesting, sound, and provocative, and meet the editors' aspiration to stimulate high quality research on women's experiences in work organizations. I recommend it highly.' -- Jean M. Bartunek, Boston College, US
Table of ContentsContents: Introduction: Research on Women in Business and Management Diana Bilimoria and Sandy Kristin Piderit PART I: SOCIETAL ROLES AND CONTEXTS OF WOMEN IN BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT 1. Myths in the Media: How the News Media Portrays 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. Calás, Linda Smircich and Kristina A. Bourne PART II: 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 PART III: 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. The Effectiveness of Human Resource Management Practices for Promoting Women’s Careers Alison M. Konrad PART IV: 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, Sue Vinnicombe and Siri Terjesen 15. One World: Women Leading and Managing Worldwide Nancy J. Adler Index
