Handbook On Women In Business And Management

‘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

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, 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.

Contents:

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

http://weatherhead.case.edu/faculty/faculty.cfm?id=5203
http://wsomfaculty.case.edu/piderit
http://wsomfaculty.case.edu/bilimoria