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Women at the Top
Fanny M. Cheung, Diane F. Halpern
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Psychologie
Beschreibung
Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives. * explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level women * includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and more * weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive and negative work-life spill over * discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back, juggling), the need for social support, and the importance of cultural context
Rezensionen
"Psychologists Diane Halpern and Fanny Cheung focus on one particular obstacle to women's advancement: the difficulty for women of combining a career with family.The interviews serve to illustrate various themes covered in the book, such as learning from role models, managing time, maintaining relationships with husbands and children,addressing conflicts between career and family, and developing effective methods of leading and wielding influence. The book's unique contribution lies with the stories of the women leaders and their varied strategies for combining career and family. Readers will likely feel inspired by the womens' successes ... .Although Women at the Top is not an advice book, it does contain a chapter that gives recommendations to women who aspire to be leaders while also having a family ... .A number of the book's recommendations ... have received strong empirical support ... .The book provides a nice balance of first-person accounts and summaries of up-to-date scholarly research from a variety of disciplines. It is written in an accessible style, conveying scientific findings in a engaging and easy to understand format that should appeal to a wide audience ... .Because the book is highly interdisciplinary, it could also be used as a supplemental text in graduate and undergraduate courses in management and organizational behavior, psychology and sociology of work or gender, and family studies. I can imagine that it would generate much discussion among students who believe that career-oriented women no longer have obstacles to overcome and that combining career and family is easy."
"Halpern and Cheung conduct a cross-cultural analysis of the work-life dichotomy in order to illuminate social and cultural expectations for women, to compare policy and personal solutions, and ultimately to propose a strategic plan for navigating work-life demands."
"There is much here for women looking to energise their professional and home life, renew their perspectives and optimise their competencies as leaders and managers."
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Soziologie, Sociology, Psychology, Gesellschaftstheorie, Psychologie, Psychology of Sexuality & Gender, Sexual- u. Geschlechtspsychologie, Social Theory