...Final Project Problems & Challenges Facing Women in Achieving Executive Positions Regina Sykes Kaplan University GB520 Strategic Human Resources Management Prof: Susan Pettine 03/04/2013 TOPIC Are women still facing challenges of achieving executive positions? Although there seems to be a shifting in numbers in the workforce this question is still relevant. When looking across the number of companies that exist in the U.S.A. and the makeup of the workforce there still seem to be an imbalance in number of women in executive positions. Women make up 47% of the workforce, however less than 15% are in executive positions (Starvish, 2012). This research paper will take a dive into variables and challenges a company faces when working to increase the number of women in executive positions. This paper will help to define the approach to researching the obstacles that are faced by women and the companies that could potentially employ them in executive positions. Lastly, this paper will identify those key to providing a shift in what executives are believed to possess. Scope In an effort to provide readers with new information and insight into the challenges and problems that exist for women to attain an executive position several different credible sources will be leveraged, including Gartner search group, Harvard Business School, About.com and many other sources. By leveraging research that has already been conducted as well as reviewing information that...
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...individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” I think that his words have true meaning because when analysing heroes like Spiderman and Martin Luther King Jr. you would notice that both come from a background full of struggles. For example, Spiderman dealt with the death of his parents and uncle and Martin Luther King Jr. suffered from beatings and depression. The two are now heroes because they found the strength to live and endure. This theme is also commonly found in Greek mythology. Heroes from those times had also undergone many hardships in their way to glory. A great example of a hero from Greek times is Theseus. He fought through many obstacles and it is because of his strength, leadership and determination through them that he carved his name in history....
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...Synopsis of final Research report A Study on Buying Behavior of Customers towards Branded and Non-branded Jewellery in India Submitted to: Prof. Gautam Bansal Dean PCTE B-School Submitted by: Arjun Kaura 1213011 Introduction: As India makes rapid progress in the retail arena, the Indian jewellery market is undergoing a gradual metamorphosis from unorganized to organized formats. Jewellery retailing is moving from a ‘Storehouse of value’ to a ‘Precious fashion accessory’. Consumers are more quality conscious than ever before. The jewellery market is one of the largest consumer sectors in the country- larger than telecom, automobiles and apparel and perhaps second only to the food sector. Need and objectives: The purpose behind this study is to find out where do women in Punjab fare on the road to entrepreneurship. Punjab has immense opportunities for women to showcase their talent in various fields like arts, science, management etc. This research is therefore focused upon young graduate women in Punjab to study their entrepreneurial...
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...High incorporated firms have tightened the barriers for new entrants regarding time management, intellectual skills and work commitment. The key problem with this prior explanation is that these expectations are still difficult for women to meet. Working females still struggle to balance their career and family life. Also belief of the business world as a man’s territory or the game field still persists from the date of the co-operate world existence to the current era. The business world is contemplated within a male hierarchical framework that had always hindered women to access the crowning point of top business positions. This essay will seek to critically examine the slow growth towards empowerment of women leadership and also consider the effects of their leadership style that had shaken the pure stereotyped business world. One question that needs to be asked, however is whether women are confined from entry to the higher co-operate levels within the respective firms. Men are believed to be more assertive and autocratic in nature when compared to their counterparts, the women. This hinders the prior from breaking the co-operate glass ceiling. A study conducted over a number of firms located in United Kingdom reveals that promotion to a partner level is based on gender bias. The findings indicate that women were denied opportunities leading to partnership positions because senior managers perceived that women’s...
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...| ------------------------------------------------- Leadership CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT Words: 2038 In a male dominated society, I chose a different business leader: Gail Kelly. Who is she? She is an amazing South African-born Australian businesswoman. She is a very dynamic and powerful woman. In 1980 she began her banking career. She built its strong reputation thanks to her work in Saint George Bank. In fact, from 2002 to 2007 she worked as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Australian bank Saint George. She was very active for customer service. In addition, she had a strong impact for the profitability and the growth of the company too. Since 2008, she has taken another challenge, which consists in having the same role in another Australian company-bigger and more complex-Westpac Bank. (Australia’s second largest bank and one that serves around 12 million customers, employs 40,000 people, and has more than 1,200 branches. ) As soon as she began her new career as chief executive of this last-named company, she engineered a Westpac takeover of her former company. To describe her profile, I will structure my essay in four parts that are the leader branding, the leader style, the conflict management and the leadership ethics. The first part is named “Leadership branding” and in this part, I will try to define Kelly’s branding. “The typical manager is comfortable in the role of the designer, creating the ideal structure to meet strategic needs” and...
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...The Moral Compass Leadership for a Free World Lindsay J Thompson Leadership Ethics Course Manual ~ © 2005 Lindsay J Thompson ~ All rights reserved 2 THE MORAL COMPASS Leadership for a Free World Table of Contents introduction page 5 core learning page 9 the leadership labyrinth page 11 the m oral com pass page 27 values and global value creation page 73 corporate citizenship page 93 bibliography page 109 the case lab page 113 Leadership Ethics Course Manual ~ © 2005 Lindsay J Thompson ~ All rights reserved 3 Leadership Ethics Course Manual ~ © 2005 Lindsay J Thompson ~ All rights reserved 4 introduction Moral Leadership for a Free World If you read a newspaper this morning, you almost surely read something related to morality, leadership, and freedom. From international relations to neighborhood and family life, concerns about leadership ethics and human welfare are the focus of news, political movements, and civic initiatives. Emotionally engaging terms like “moral leadership,” “the free world” and “human freedom” are often used in the media without much explanation or clarification. Momentous decisions are made and life choices established in the name of values attached to these and similar terms. What do we really mean by “moral leadership,” or “freedom?” If two people use these terms in a conversation, do they explicitly share a common understanding of them or just assume common ground? For instance...
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...Sexism in Organizations Joyce N. Vitalo Organizational Theory Dr. Lee Mahon December 17, 2011 Abstract In today’s workplace there is an emphasis on equality through trainings and programs that are intended to avoid sexism. The historical influence on the business world has shown for the last one hundred years a division of organizational leaders by gender. These divisions have been a part of organizational structure and slow to change. Historical Perspective of Sexism Women in the United States have been on a slow journey towards equality that has had many twists and turns over the last one hundred years. There have been many women who have helped to pull other women to the same level as men. The women of today are still pushing towards the same level of respect, responsibility and reward that men receive and have been receiving. Chapter one of History of Woman Suffrage Vol. I, opens with “As civilization advances there is a continual change in the standard of human rights. In barbarous ages the right of the strongest was the only one recognized; but as mankind progressed in the arts and sciences intellect began to triumph over brute force. Change is a law of life, and the development of society a natural growth…. In all periods of human development, thinking has been punished as a crime, which is reason sufficient to account for the general passive resignation of the masses to their conditions and environments.” (Cady Stanton, Anthony, Gage and...
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...Staurowsky calls it the “labyrinth.” She explains it by saying that the steps to make progress in your career or be successful are more open and available to men, than they are women. When asked about what can be done to bring a culture of inclusion and diversity to sports, Dr. Staurowsky had two major solutions. First people must recognize that minorities have had success in the past, within sport organizations (EX: Billy Jean King and Effa Manley), and we must give them credit for that progress. Second, the culture of any organization or business starts at the top and makes its way down. So leadership of the NCAA and professional sport leagues, have to establish that culture, through actions and training/programs, and let it permeate throughout their...
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...authorize that the practiced nurses have power over the training for education corresponding with the branched out accountabilities that can be of necessity for them. Since the healthcare moves from the hospice-focused, in-patient management to extra initial and precautionary cure all through the society, the system of health care calls for registered nurses who are not merely capable of doing practice within numerous care settings- equally inside and further than the hospices- but are competent to work out with extra self-determination in clinical decision making, management of the cases, administration of un-licensed equipments and supplementary supporting staff, supply of direct bed-side healing, educating the sufferers by means of the labyrinth of the resources of health care, and guiding them on the procedures of treatment and implementation of hale and hearty styles of living. Above all, the grounding of the opening level qualified nurse calls for a superior direction to the community-centered initial care for health, and an impact on the promotion and preservation of health, and lucrative synchronized management. Role of RN with a BSN Degree Contrasting the graduate students of programs of associate degree nursing or diplomas, the nurses having BSN degree are ready to conduct their responsibilities in every setting of health care, such as the out-patient services, intensive care, mental and public health care settings. Therefore, the BSN nurse is highly qualified...
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...Women and their route to success: could the barriers be completely broken down? Ginna Munoz Molloy College Abstract Undoubtedly women have made extraordinary strides from the standpoint of their careers. It is now possible to see a woman running companies and occupying the most prestigious positions worldwide. However, the representation of women in business is still low in comparison with men. On one hand, many researches provide evidences of the existence of different types of discrimination against women, and on the other hand, some studies show a positive and promising panorama for women. Nowadays, women are seen as the core of the economy and it is possible that within a generation a majority of working wives will outearn their husbands. These researches provide solid foundations to think that the barriers affecting women negatively could be broken. Nevertheless, the most value stride women can achieve is to change the vision about themselves so that new female generations grow without the stereotypes that currently prevent them from succeeding. Women and their route to success: could the barriers be completely broken down? Over recent decades women have made clear strides professionally. Today it is possible to see women performing in fields and taking on positions previously blocked for them. Nevertheless, the representation of women in the business world is still very small in comparison with that of men. There is evidence that women continue to face barriers...
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...five hour journey from Jakarta to the country side, nearly 80 students finally arrived at the remote spot, full of towering and mysterious trees and without knowing what wildlife actually lived in there. All the students were still in-a-fog, recalibrating themselves from sleep on a long drive in the car and feeling surprised out how primitive the place was, where they would spend the next three nights. I was the chief of the Student Government for my major, Information Systems, called HIMSISFO. One of our program was an outdoor orientation for new students to learn how to survive in the wild by using only very basic tools without any electronics and also how to work in a group. They would learn lots of soft skills, like communication, leadership and other topics which varied every year these were performed by the alumni or the Information system’s dean. As city slickers, who are much more adapted to modern, appropriate and convenient amenities, like warm running shower water, clean restrooms stocked with toilet paper, or fluffy, comfortable feathered beds, we expected the new students to have a little taste of great outdoors with clean and fresh air and also got introduced to the beautiful painting of God. We instructed the new students to unload their stuff from the gigantic truck we came with and to build the tents. We constructed several large tents, like the meeting place for the coordinators, the area that we called “restroom”, the activity room where the new students...
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...Executive women leadership can help corporations at the board level with success, find creative ways for face challenges, and spot talent within and outside the corporation while making the boardroom more innovative. Unfortunately, business women do not possess equal access to leadership. They face complexities not encountered by business men because of continuing uncertainties about their ability to lead. Requiring a diverse boardroom is a smart and practical way of bringing a different perspective and most assuredly value to the workplace. If every corporate board had at least one female board director, imagine the creativity and respect that would transpire. Women are working longer hours and the days of the "typical" stay at home mom are now becoming the stay at home dad. Business women have their sights on achieving an executive leadership position at the top of any corporation. Businesses must realize that there is something missing with boards being presided, managed and directed by all white males. In today's society, the word is inclusion, not exclusion, and it is robbing companies and society of talent and perspective that would benefit any firm by having the other half of the working population in the room. An integrated and diverse network of employees is a smart and practical way to balance and develop relationships. Clearly, men and women are different; however, equality in a diverse workplace needs to resonate at the top. Top level leadership needs to recognize...
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...In recent years, the United States political system has become more and more of a running joke on the world stage. When we compare our leaders and elections to what the founding fathers envisioned, we find that almost every safe guard they put into place has been overturned or a loophole has been found allowing corruption to bypass it. It’s hard to think that the founding father could have imagined the tools big money politicians use today: Media that reaches billions of people a day and can completely shape the opinion a viewer has on a candidate in seconds, lobbyists that use corporate funds to gain the support of a politician through forms of legal bribery, and giant temples of bureaucracy where nobody can do anything and nobody is responsible. To end this tirade of rulers that don’t represent the people, to end the fact that the candidate with the most money wins the most campaigns, we must seek a political system that does not allow for the corrupting force of greed. If we are to be governed by our fellow men, those few should be a noble few, uncorrupt and willing to put aside personal interests for the national good....
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...civilization was a Bronze Age civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. It was rediscovered at the beginning of the 20th century through the work of the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. Will Durant referred to it as "the first link in the European chain." The early inhabitants of Crete settled as early as 128,000 BC, during the Middle Paleolithic age. However it was not until 5000 BC that the first signs of advanced agriculture appeared, marking the beginning of the civilization. Overview What the Minoans called themselves is unknown. The term "Minoan" was coined by Arthur Evans after the mythic "king" Minos. Minos was associated in Greek myth with the labyrinth, which Evans identified with the site at Knossos. It has sometimes been argued that the Egyptian place name "Keftiu" (*Káftiu kftiw) and the Semitic "Kaftor" or "Caphtor" and "Kaptara" in the Mari archives refer to the island of Crete; "On the other hand some acknowledged facts about Caphtor/Keftiu can only with difficulty be reconciled with Crete," observes John Strange. In the Odyssey, composed centuries after the destruction of the Minoan civilization, Homer calls the natives of Crete Eteocretans ("true Cretans"); these may have been descendants of the Minoans. Minoan palaces (anaktora) are the best known building types to have been excavated on the island. They are monumental buildings serving administrative purposes as evidenced...
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