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Men and Women of the Corporation

Mary Anne Devanna
- 01 Apr 1978 - 
- Vol. 14, Iss: 2, pp 247-250
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This article is published in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.The article was published on 1978-04-01. It has received 3053 citations till now.

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Leadership Renewal: Towards the Philosophy of Wisdom:

TL;DR: Burns as mentioned in this paper concludes that the ultimate test of moral leadership is its capacity to transcend the claims of the multiplicity of everyday needs and expectations, to respond to the higher levels of moral development and to relate leadership behaviour, its roles, choices, style and commitments, to a set of reasoned, relatively explicit, conscious values.
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Cultivating Discourse: The Social Construction of Agricultural Legislation

TL;DR: This paper traced the emergence and development of an American agrarian discourse, constituted from a wealth of ideas and theories concerning the place of farming in American society and the embodiment of these lines of thought in the agricultural legislation of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Frontier, Entrepreneurialism, and Engineers: Women Coping with a Web of Masculinities in an Organizational Culture

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an empirical study into the gendered culture of the oil industry as experienced by professional women who work in it and found that the most durable barriers to women are largely embedded in the gendering of this industry.
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The overworked site manager: gendered ideologies in the construction industry

TL;DR: In the case of the Swedish construction industry, the site manager role is seen as a paternal figure having full control of the situation, always in the position to take care of emerging and unforeseen events, and spending long hours at work.
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Comparing the Workplace Experiences of Male and Female Police Officers: Examining Workplace Problems, Stress, Jobc Satisfaction and Consideration of Career Change:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the interrelationships between four workplace problems, namely the need for mentoring programs, stress, job satisfaction and consideration of making career changes, to deter managers from making mistakes.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.

TL;DR: Evidence from varied research paradigms substantiates that consequences of perceived incongruity between the female gender role and leadership roles are more difficult for women to become leaders and to achieve success in leadership roles.
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Economics and Identity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.
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Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure

TL;DR: In this article, an emotion-management perspective is proposed as a lens through which to inspect the self, interaction, and structure of emotion, arguing that emotion can be and ofter is subject to acts of management.
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What is agency

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualize agency as a temporally embedded process of social engagement, informed by the past (in its "iterational" or habitual aspect) but also oriented toward the future (as a projective capacity to imagine alternative possibilities) and toward the present, as a practical-evaluative capacity to contextualize past habits and future projects within the contingencies of the moment.
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Social stigma and self-esteem: The self-protective properties of stigma.

TL;DR: In this article, it is proposed that members of stigmatized groups may attribute negative feedback to prejudice against their group, compare their outcomes with those of the ingroup, rather than with the relatively advantaged outgroup, and selectively devalue those dimensions on which their group fares poorly and value those dimensions that their group excels.