Elite Business Magazine Nov 2014 - We need to create a level playing field
By: Lisa Cohen,聽assistant professor,聽Desautels Faculty of聽Management
Talking Management with Professor Karl Moore: What makes for a charismatic leader?
This is Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management at 平特五不中, Talking Management for The Globe and Mail. Today, I am delighted to speak to Raina Brands [assistant professor of organizational behaviour] from the London Business School.
...听Raina, you have been looking at charismatic leaders. Do men and women differ in respect to charismatic leadership?
"Exploring Digital Creativity in the Workspace: The Role of Enterprise Mobile Applications on Perceived Job Performance and Creativity," Computers in Human Behavior
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Publication: Computers in Human Behavior, 2014
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"Professions at the Helm or Left Behind? Trends in the Occupations of American College Graduates since the Second World War in the United States," Journal of Education and Work
Author: Hollister, Matissa
Publication: Journal of Education and Work, 2014
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Making It to the Top
Lisa Cohen, Assistant professor, Desautels Faculty of Management, 平特五不中, Canada, reveals the difficulty women encounter in being hired for higher level roles.聽
When Mary Barra became the first female chief executive of General Motors, we celebrated a woman reaching the height of her profession.聽
Mattel to Buy Mega Bloks
Mattel has made a friendly takeover offer for Montreal-based toy maker Mega Brands Inc., which has the world鈥檚 No. 2 line of construction sets after Lego. Desautels Executive in Residence聽Melissa Sonberg聽comments on the takeover. 聽
Watch full interview:聽Global Montreal, February 28, 2014聽
Male (Job) Insecurity
The long debate over whether America has gotten more economically unequal in the last few decades is over; all but the most recalcitrant acknowledge it. (As a recent New York Times story reported, sharp-eyed salesmen have acted on this reality, increasingly marketing to the top few percent.) The economic argument has now shifted to whether average Americans have nonetheless done alright even as the rich have become super-rich. Here one detects a subtle difference in vocabulary.
Why Female Managers Are in Short Supply?
It took Mary Barra more than three decades at General Motors to become the company鈥檚 first female chief executive. Even then we celebrated a woman reaching the pinnacle of her profession. The same happened again when Inga Beale became Lloyd's of London's first female CEO in the company鈥檚 325-year history. -Article by Lisa Cohen
Study Untangles Divergent U.S. Job-Tenure Patterns
Have American jobs become less stable? Do workers change employers more frequently than in the past?
Many Americans would probably say the answer to these questions is an obvious yes. Yet, for the past few decades researchers looking at the data haven鈥檛 been so sure: average job tenure (the number of years working for the same employer) has been surprisingly stable over time.
Cross-border Business Teams and the Entertainment Arena
More and more companies are abandoning traditional organisational structures and creating cross-border teams of people who live and work thousands of miles apart.
"Unmasking the Conflicting Trends in Job Tenure by Gender in the United States, 1983-2010," American Sociological Review.
Authors: Hollister, Matissa N.; Kristin E. Smith
Publication: American Sociological Review (Forthcoming)
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"Whose Jobs Are These? The Impact of the Proportion of Female Managers on the Number of New Management Jobs Filled by Women versus Men," Administrative Science Quarterly
Authors: Cohen, Lisa E.; Broschak, Joseph P.
Publication: Administrative Science Quarterly
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"Pursuing Career Success while Sustaining Personal and Family Well-Being: A Study of Reduced-Load Professionals over Time," Journal of Social Issues
Authors: Hall, Douglas T. Hall; Lee, Mary Dean; Kossek, Ellen Ernst; Heras, Mireia Las
Publication: Journal of Social Issues, December 2012
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"Do Women Choose Different Jobs from Men? Mechanisms of Application Segregation in the Market for Managerial Workers," Organization Science
Authors: Barbulescu, Roxana; Bidwell, Matthew
Publication: Organization Science, May-June 2013
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"Friend or Foe? The Effects of Contingent Employees on Standard Employees' Work Attitudes," The International Journal of Human Resources Management
Authors: Banerjee, Mallika; Tolbert, Pamela S,; DiCiccio, Thomas
Publication: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012
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