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Men and Women of the Corporation
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This article is published in Canadian Woman Studies.The article was published on 1978-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1735 citations till now.read more
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The Measurement of Organizational Commitment.
TL;DR: The Organizational Commitment Questionnaire (OCQ) as discussed by the authors ) is a measure of employee commitment to work organizations, developed by Porter and his colleagues, which is based on a series of studies among 2563 employees in nine divergent organizations.
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Searching for Common Threads: Understanding the Multiple Effects of Diversity in Organizational Groups
TL;DR: This article reviewed and evaluated recent management research on the effects of different types of diversity in group composition at various organizational levels (i.e., boards of directors, top management groups, and organizational task groups) for evidence of common patterns.
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Predictors of objective and subjective career success: a meta‐analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a meta-analysis reviewed four categories of predictors of objective and subjective career success: human capital, organizational sponsorship, sociodemographic status, and stable individual differences.
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Gender stereotypes stem from the distribution of women and men into social roles
TL;DR: According to stereotypic beliefs about the sexes, women are more communal (selfless and concerned with others) and less agentic (self-assertive and motivated to master) than men.
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The Gender and Ethnic Diversity of US Boards and Board Committees and Firm Financial Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the business case for the inclusion of women and ethnic minority directors on the board and found no significant relationship between the gender or ethnic diversity of the board, or important board committees, and financial performance for a sample of major US corporations.
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How similarity to peers and supervisor influences organizational advancement in different cultures
John Schaubroeck,Simon S. K. Lam +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested hypotheses concerning how similarity of personality traits between promotion candidates and their peers and supervisors influences promotion decisions in different work unit cultus and found that personality traits can influence promotion decisions.
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Close Encounters: Analyzing How Social Similarity and Propinquity Contribute to Strong Network Connections
TL;DR: Among the public school teachers, propinquity amplified the positive effect that age similarity had on tie strength, and the strongest network connections occurred among age-similar teachers who had classrooms on the same floor.
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CEO Career Variety: Effects on Firm-Level Strategic and Social Novelty
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of "career variety" was introduced, defined as the array of distinct professional and institutional experiences an executive has had prior to becoming CEO, and found to be positively associated with firm-level strategic novelty.
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Red Light, Green Light: Making Sense of the Organizational Context for Issue Selling
TL;DR: A qualitative look at the range of cues indicating context favorability, including demographic patterns, top management qualities, and cultural exclusivity reveals that the exclusiveness of organizational culture is the most potent cue affecting willingness to sell a gender-equity issue.
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Does Women's Proportional Strength Affect their Participation? Governing Local Forests in South Asia
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of gender composition on women's effective participation in community forestry institutions in India and Nepal has been investigated, and the results support the popularly emphasized proportions of one-quarter to one-third but women's economic class also matters, as do some factors other than women's numbers.