Women in Management

Women in Management
Author: Sanghamitra Buddhapriya
Publisher: APH Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1999
Genre: Women executives
ISBN: 9788176481021

Based on a survey of 160 women managers from ten public sector organizations carried out between 1993 and 1996. Investigates factors affecting their career development focusing on five main variables: the sex-role orientation of these managers, leadership style, fear of success, organizational stresses and coping style. Includes a review of the literature on these issues and looks at the status of women managers in some other countries.

Enterprising Women

Enterprising Women
Author: Mary Hallward-Driemeier
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2013-06-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821398091

This book brings together new household and enterprise data from 41 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to inform policy makers and practitioners on ways to expand women entrepreneurs’ economic opportunities. Sub-Saharan Africa boasts the highest share of women entrepreneurs, but they are disproportionately concentrated among the self-employed rather than employers. Relative to men, women are pursuing lower opportunity activities, with their enterprises more likely to be smaller, informal, and in low value-added lines of business. The challenge in expanding opportunities is not helping more women become entrepreneurs but enabling them to shift to higher return activities. A central question addressed in the book is what explains the gender sorting in the types of enterprises that women and men run? The analysis shows that many Sub-Saharan countries present a challenging environment for women. Four key areas of the agenda for expanding women’s economic opportunities in Africa are analyzed: strengthening women’s property rights and their ability to control assets; improving women’s access to finance; building human capital in business skills and networks; and strengthening women’s voices in business environment reform. These areas are important both because they have wide gender gaps and because they help explain gender differences in entrepreneurial activities. It is particularly striking that while gender gaps in education tend to close with higher incomes, gaps in women’s property rights and in women’s participation in reform processes do not. As simply raising a country’s income is unlikely to be sufficient to give women equal ability to control assets or have greater voice, more proactive steps will be needed. Practical guidelines to move the agenda forward are discussed for each of these key areas.

Conflict Management - Organizational Happiness, Mindfulness, and Coping Strategies

Conflict Management - Organizational Happiness, Mindfulness, and Coping Strategies
Author: Francisco Manuel Morales-Rodríguez
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2024-05-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 085466209X

This book provides a comprehensive overview of conflict management, addressing the conceptualization of conflict resolution in psychology, some ethical considerations in the organizational setting, and other constructs or variables that may be relevant or related to conflict management, such as adaptive management of emotions, the coping process, mindfulness, and perceived self-efficacy to successfully cope with technological tasks that may require a certain degree of sophistication in the work and professional environments.

Occupational Stress and Coping Strategies

Occupational Stress and Coping Strategies
Author: G. Kavitha
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2009
Genre: Bank employees
ISBN: 9788183564489

Study on job stress of bank employees; conducting in Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India.

The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration

The Big Book of Conflict Resolution Games: Quick, Effective Activities to Improve Communication, Trust and Collaboration
Author: Mary Scannell
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2010-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071743669

Make workplace conflict resolution a game that EVERYBODY wins! Recent studies show that typical managers devote more than a quarter of their time to resolving coworker disputes. The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games offers a wealth of activities and exercises for groups of any size that let you manage your business (instead of managing personalities). Part of the acclaimed, bestselling Big Books series, this guide offers step-by-step directions and customizable tools that empower you to heal rifts arising from ineffective communication, cultural/personality clashes, and other specific problem areas—before they affect your organization's bottom line. Let The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games help you to: Build trust Foster morale Improve processes Overcome diversity issues And more Dozens of physical and verbal activities help create a safe environment for teams to explore several common forms of conflict—and their resolution. Inexpensive, easy-to-implement, and proved effective at Fortune 500 corporations and mom-and-pop businesses alike, the exercises in The Big Book of Conflict-Resolution Games delivers everything you need to make your workplace more efficient, effective, and engaged.

International Handbook of Career Guidance

International Handbook of Career Guidance
Author: James A. Athanasou
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 733
Release: 2008-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402062303

This handbook offers a comprehensive review on career guidance, with an emphasis on the applied aspects of guidance together with research methods and perspectives. It features contributions from more than 30 leading authorities in the field from Asia, Africa, America, Australasia and Europe and draws upon a wide range of career guidance paradigms and theoretical perspectives. This handbook covers such subjects as educational and vocational guidance in a social context, theoretical foundations, educational and vocational guidance in practice, specific target groups, testing and assessment, and evaluation.

Learning Together

Learning Together
Author: Nancy Falchikov
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2001
Genre: College students
ISBN: 0415182611

This book provides an introduction to the methods and practice of peer tutoring focusing on how to set up schemes and how to cope with common problems.

Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles

Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 877
Release: 2021-03-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799887383

The role of women in the workplace has rapidly advanced and changed within the previous decade, leading to a current position in which women are taking over leadership roles and being offered these positions more than ever before. However, a gap still exists with the representation of women in the workforce especially in power positions and roles of authority in organizations. While the representation of women in leadership roles is impressive and exciting for the future, women still face many challenges when taking over these positions of power and face many issues related to gender inclusivity. There is also still gender bias and discrimination against women who have been given the opportunity to become authority figures. It is essential to acknowledge and discuss these critical issues and challenges that women in leadership roles must handle to better understand the current climate of gender roles across various industries and types of leadership. The Research Anthology on Challenges for Women in Leadership Roles discusses the role of women in positions of authority across diverse industries and businesses. By reviewing the biases, struggles, discrimination, and overall challenges of being a woman in a powerful role, women leaders can be better understood for their role in a male-dominated world. This includes topics of concern such as equal treatment, proper implementation of women’s policies, social justice activism, discrimination, and sexual harassment in the workplace, and the importance of diversity and empowerment of women in leadership positions with chapters pertaining specifically to African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern women. This book is ideal for professionals, researchers, managers, executives, leaders, academicians, sociologists, policymakers, and students in fields that include humanities, social sciences, women’s studies, gender studies, business management, management science, health sciences, educational studies, and political sciences.