Gender‚ Work and Organization. Vol. 18 No. 3 May 2011 doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2010.00546.x Are Women in Management Victims of the Phantom of the Male Norm? gwao_546 298..317 Yvonne Due Billing* Managerial jobs have conventionally been understood as male and thus as not being directly suitable for women. The point of departure of this discourse is that women and men are different and that there is congruence between men and managerial jobs. On the basis of a qualitative study of
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wasn’t guilty. Juror eight persuaded each other juror by proving each story of how the boy killed his father wrong. At the end‚ every juror did not have any reasonable doubt that the boy killed his father. Juror three was the last one to agree. “Well‚ you’re not going to intimidate me! I’m entitled to my opinion.” After a brief second he sucked up his stubbornness and voted not guilty. In the end it shows how one man can have a great influence on the minds of many. The statement has had a little
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Leaders and Leadership What is leadership? Leadership is a special form of power‚ one that involves the ability‚ based on the personal qualities of the leader‚ to elicit the followers’ voluntary compliance in a broad range of matters. Leadership is distinguished from the concept of power in that it entails influence‚ that is‚ change of preferences‚ while power implies only that subjects’ preferences are held in abeyance (Etzioni‚ 1965). There are two approaches that we are going to discuss in this
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his empire by overthrowing the Persian Empire. And although they were a major success to his rising to power. People must be able to understand exactly how even after defeating his enemies‚ Alexander ran these new additions to his empire and effected them through cultural influence. While Alexander was exceedingly bright‚ some may have doubted how he chose to run them. Even after the overthrowing of Darius III‚ Alexander still wanted to add more to his empire. He even went as far as India to overthrow
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Introduction This study aims to apply the application of value chain to a selected organisation in a service industry. This study aims to use Hilton Hotels as the focus of this paper. The main purpose of this study is to examine how Hilton Hotels builds a relationship with its customers‚ how it improves the added value to retain customers and what should be improved under the context of value chain to improve the better services in order to effectively deliver customer satisfaction and exceed their expectation
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Introduction Building effective‚ cohesive teams has never played such a pivotal role in a company’s success as it does today. As the economy recovers‚ many organizations are working with newly formed groups and teams as a result of corporate downsizings‚ mergers and restructurings. Other organizations throughout the world have deliberately adopted team-based work structures to meet their business objectives. Many models of the organization of the future are premised on teams surpassing individuals as the primary
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Transactional Leader as the word implies business or exchange. Burns‚ 1978‚ opined that a transactional leader is someone who leads though social exchange. It is a process that I simply call trade by batter‚ you do this for me‚ and you get that in return. A politician can be a transactional leader when he seeks to exchange one thing for another i.e. making promises and pulling through with the promises after an election. Also most business leaders are seen as transformational when they give out incentives
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly done‚ this is happiness and this is success. “how success can be achieved” Someone has rightly said that there are three ingredients in a good life‚ learning‚ earning‚ and yearning. These three ingredients in right amount will lead one to success. Success doesn’t come in instant packets‚ ready to be adorned but it should be achieved .There are no hard and fast rules to achieve success‚ but some
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nsfor How Transformational Leadership Inspires Change | | About the Author Philip Berry is involved with global management consulting‚ executive coaching and training specializing in leadership development‚ global talent development‚ global diversity‚ innovation‚ team building‚ and corporate social responsibility and employee relations effectiveness. Mr. Berry has extensive global experience‚ was previously Vice President‚ Global Workplace Initiatives for Colgate-Palmolive and also worked
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How Shakespeare’s Juliet can be recontextualised The original play by Shakespeare and Zeffirelli and Luhrmann’s interpretation of the play are all different versions of the classical tragic story of Romeo and Juliet. When reading the play or seeing Zeffirelli and Luhrmann’s film we can observe various differences between them. Juliet‚ being one of the dominating characters of this story can be seen to be recontextualised differently through her personality‚ looks and role in society. Juliet’s
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