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Men and Women of the Corporation
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Giving Up Control Without Losing Control TRUST AND ITS SUBSTITUTES' EFFECTS ON MANAGERS' INVOLVING EMPLOYEES IN DECISION MAKING
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesize that managers' trust in employees and two impersonal substitutes for trust, performance information and incentives, will increase managers' involvement of lower echelon employees in decision making.
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Ivies, extracurriculars, and exclusion: Elite employers’ use of educational credentials
TL;DR: The authors found that educational credentials were the most common criteria employers used to solicit and screen resumes, and that extracurricular activities have become credentials of social and moral character that have monetary conversion value in labor markets.
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The Other Pathway to the Boardroom: Interpersonal Influence Behavior as a Substitute for Elite Credentials and Majority Status in Obtaining Board Appointments:
James D. Westphal,Ithai Stern +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that top managers who engage in ingratiatory behavior toward their CEO, with ingratiation comprising flattery, opinion conformity, and favor-rendering, will be more likely to receive board appointments at other firms where their CEO serves as a director and at boards to which the CEO is indirectly connected in the board interlock network.
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Faculty members' morale and their intention to leave: a multilevel explanation
TL;DR: Boyer et al. as discussed by the authors explored the relationship between the quality of faculty worklife and intention to leave and found that these three factors affect the likelihood of faculty members to leave an institution.
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Girls and Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics: STEMing the Tide and Broadening Participation in STEM Careers
Nilanjana Dasgupta,Jane G. Stout +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe how specific learning environments, peer relations, and family characteristics become obstacles for women to pursue STEM careers and propose solutions to the scarcity of women in STEM careers.
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Role congruity theory of prejudice toward female leaders.
Alice H. Eagly,Steven J. Karau +1 more
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
Mustafa Emirbayer,Ann Mische +1 more
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.
Jennifer Crocker,Brenda Major +1 more
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.