International Human Resource Management-MJ Version

matched male/female manager pairs, male meanings overall were more similar to top managers’ meanings than were females’ meanings ...

discovered the future potential of women’s leadership styles and even as claiming that men need to learn ‘women’s games’. In a r ...

Schein’s original findings in relation to ratings of men and women in general and managers;however, they also discovered that th ...

model is the ability to progress in a predictable and ordered manner through increasingly higher status roles (O’Leary, 1997). I ...

addition, the tension between work and home demands, which is often the cause of women opting out at higher management levels, b ...

substitution), others-orientation (i.e. the ability to form relationships and the willingness to communicate with host nationals ...

Source of interactions Family Colleagues Host nationals Mentors Other expatriates Functionaries Type of interactions Instrumenta ...

assignments and international commuting assignments, where the family may not physically relocate, the additional stressors of t ...

largely due to the fact that women were seen as foreigners who happened to be women, not as women who happened to be foreigners ...

adjustment and performance. A related question revolves around the subject of culturally determined managerial behaviours and th ...

temporary, a one-year position to train a Chinese man to replace me. I succeeded and became permanent.’ Lack of confidence on th ...

and leveraging women’s and men’s unique styles into complementary approaches. It is this approach which Adler advocates as most ...

stereotyping (for example Futoran and Wyer, 1986; Heilman, 1983). Such studies suggest that individual selectors will develop sc ...

that the field of potential applicants is determined by the selector/s, with the attendant risk of omission of suitable candidat ...

4 ADVANTAGES FOR FEMALE INTERNATIONAL MANAGERS In the light of the many disadvantages faced by women international managers, the ...

2 Adopt a sophisticated approach to the determination of criteria for effective international managers. Competencies should be d ...

trends indicate that women will take a more active part in international management in the future. The question is: how rapidly ...

4 What do you think organisations should do to address dual-career and family constraints to international mobility? Can an orga ...

perspective. A key finding arising from the study is the critical influence of selection systems for international assignments w ...

Becker, T.E., Billings, R.S., Eveleth, D.M. and Gilbert, N.L. (1996) ‘Foci and Bases of Employee Commitment: Implications for Jo ...