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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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The Contribution of Women on Boards of Directors: Going beyond the Surface

TL;DR: In this article, a survey of 201 Norwegian firms was conducted to understand the role and contributions of women on corporate boards and whether and how women make a difference to board effectiveness in strategic and operational control.
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In Whom we Trust: Group Membership as an Affective Context for Trust Development

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the ways in which affect impacts the trust that develops between members of dissimilar groups and propose that this affect, in turn, influences interpersonal trust development through multiple paths: cognitive, motivational, and behavioral.
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Hiring as cultural matching: The case of elite professional service firms

TL;DR: The authors presents a case study of hiring in elite professional service firms, and investigates the often suggested but heretofore empiricallistic assumptions about culture as a vehicle of labor market sorting.
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Impact of structural and psychological empowerment on job strain in nursing work settings: expanding Kanter's model.

TL;DR: An expanded model of Kanter’s structural empowerment, which specified the relationships among structural and psychological empowerment, job strain, and work satisfaction, provides initial support for an expandedmodel of organizational empowerment and offers a broader understanding of the empowerment process.
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Female leadership advantage and disadvantage: Resolving the contradictions

TL;DR: In the United States, women are increasingly praised for having excellent skills for leadership and, in fact, women, more than men, manifest leadership styles associated with effective performance as leaders as mentioned in this paper.
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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.