How will women manage? A speculation on the effects of equal opportunities in management training

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Laws against sexual discrimination in employment have not produced the results desired in the U.S., Britain, and Australia. Women executives comprise a minority of total managerial positions. Unequal employment opportunities are highly controversial because of the difficulty in determining whether such inequality is a result of employment discrimination or career choices made by men and women. There are two arguments in favor of giving women greater opportunities in management: the Social Justice Argument and the Human Capital Argument. The first considers employment discrimination against women a violation of human rights and the injustice of concentrating women in jobs with low status and pay. It demands regulation to guarantee equal opportunities and equal pay for women. The second considers women basically as competent as men and it emphasizes the economic benefits of placing deserving women in management positions.

Social aspects, Training, Employment discrimination, Management training, Women executives

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The leadership obsession: an addendum to Mangham's 'In Search of Competence'

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Max Weber attributed the superior rationality of bureaucratic administration to two criteria: selection is based on expertise; and bureaucracy is characterized by formalistic impersonality. The substitution or combination of rational leadership with a more humanistic, inspirational approach will lead to chaos due to their mutual incompatibility and the great difference in the role requirements of each approach. Inspirational management threatens the rationality of business administration. Personalizing management, by encouraging loyalty, trust, and shared commitment, will eventually lead to conflicts with rational economic considerations. Appeals for leadership, communication, and motivation in the recruitment of management raise two questions: what are the precise requirements of each attribute; and what are their proper place in business management.

Management

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Strategy: corporate leadership

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A review of leadership studies is necessary because of increasing interest in the area. Early models of leadership as a corporate strategy and models that predict when leadership abilities will assert themselves are examined. Recent leadership studies tend to emphasize a populist notion of leadership. The populist notion focuses on the leader as: an orchestrator of corporate culture, an originator of shared values, and a visionary capable of developing strategic "vision." A new, more scholarly model of corporate leadership is developed. The new model integrates leadership identifiers with strategic concepts in a corporate environment.

Research, Executives, Executive ability

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