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Men and Women of the Corporation
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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.
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Understanding the effects of larger ratios of women in national legislatures: Proportions and gender differentiation in Sweden and Norway
TL;DR: This article examined how surges of female representation have produced gender patterns in standing committees and affected the financial support for women's policy in the Norwegian and Swedish national legislatures, finding that the more women there were in the Riksdag and the Storting, the more likely they were initially to end up on a “female” standing committee.
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The influence of resonant leadership on the structural empowerment and job satisfaction of registered nurses
TL;DR: It is suggested that resonant leaders are instrumental in creating empowering environments that contribute to higher job satisfaction in nursing and a focus on developing resonant leadership skills among nurse leaders in healthcare organisations will advance the creation of healthy work environments that promote job satisfaction and the retention of nurses.
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When Nationality Matters A Study of Departmental, Hierarchical, Professional, Gender and Age-based Employee Groupings’ Leadership Preferences across 15 Countries
Lena Zander,Laurence Romani +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the question of when nationality matters regarding employees' interpersonal leadership preferences is investigated. But, the authors focus on the role of nationality in the selection of the best leader.
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Perspectives on challenges facing women in IS: the cognitive gender gap
TL;DR: It is found that men and women have little cognitive overlap about the challenges that women face in IS, and organizations and the IS profession are called on to devise novel responses and training approaches to promote change in the IS culture.
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How do people become empowered? A case study of union activists
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied the developmental model proposed by Kieffer to a sample of 14 worker-trainers and found that the model worked well with this sample, with some modification.