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Men and Women of the Corporation
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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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The declining significance of gender
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Voice Matters: Buffering the Impact of a Negative Climate for Women in Science:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether women scientists' perceptions of voice moderate the impact of poor workplace climates on job satisfaction and whether effective leadership and mentoring promote women's voice, and found that women who perceived that they had more voice in departmental matters showed higher levels of job satisfaction than those who perceived having less voice.
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Challenging the Norm of Self-Interest: Minority Influence and Transitions to Helping Norms in Work Units
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TL;DR: This article presented a minority influence framework that specifies how norms can shift in response to a challenger's consistent modeling, advocating, or inquiring about helping behavior, contingent on prosocial impact, status, similarity, work unit agreeableness and openness, and timing.
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Women on Corporate Boards: Key Influencers or Tokens?
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how an increased ratio of women directors on corporate boards is associated with board processes, specifically the women's participation and contributions on the board, and they showed that women on the corporate boards experience that they receive more information and engage more in informal social interaction when the proportion of women increases.