Abstract Despite research that has been focused on leadership for over 10 years ago, the concept of leadership is still indefinable. This paper attempts to develop the leadership concept by investigating the possibility of the coming up with fresh measures of leadership which concentrating on the characteristics of good and bad leaders. A total of 312 managers were recruited in the study. A factor analysis was conducted to reduce 13 traits of good leadership to two factors including the good and
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o r g a n i z at i o n september 2008 A business case for women The gender gap isn’t just an image problem: our research suggests that it can have real implications for company performance. Some companies have taken effective steps to achieve greater parity. Georges Desvaux, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, and Mary C. Meaney Article at a glance Companies that hire and retain more women not only are doing the right thing but can also gain a competitive edge. They can take several basic
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spent and use of resources. Previous programming experience and lecture attendance were positive factors to final course score, and a tendency to work with others was a negative factor. We found no difference in final course score based on gender; however, females tended to read the
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Whittaker, Helene. (1995) Renowned professor of classical Archeology and Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Helene whittaker is known for mainly being concerned with the Greek Bronze age. She wrote about the Gender role in The Odyssey, specifically focusing on the women's role and how women's treatment by men can be indicated as sexist. They are usually identified by their looks and treated based on how their physical appearance is, and whether they have power over any men
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I.Title: He’s Just Not That Into You – A Study On Misinterpreted Signals In Relationships II. Research Objectives: 1) To identify the differences in the communication style between men and women. 2) To help men and women understand the other’s non-verbal signals in a more profound way. 3) To reduce misunderstandings between couples by helping them read the signals given by the other. III. Research
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feminists such as McNay and Weedon (as cited in Kelemen & Rumens 2008) have been debating ways in which to instigate and enhance a shift from a male-centric organisation compositions towards a more female conscious approach. Modern philosophical approaches on structure have aided in the application of feminist theories to the organisational and managerial literature but as some critics argue: at the expense of the greater cause. From liberalism to organisation; where women stand today: There are
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Feminism must submit itself to the ethical venture of characterizing quality seeing someone, determining. Relational feminist worldview created over our lifetime. In this way, to meet the difficulties that originate from being naturally introduced to local family violence, separately our lived encounters. Although, legitimizing criteria for judgment, regarding great connections over lesser or awful ones, and squeezing law to perceive and bolster those ethical separations. Additionally, requested
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of two more recent acronyms, "WAD" and "dAD". This paper will begin with in an examination of meanings and "WAD" and "GAD" and assumptions embedded look at the "WID," then will extent to which differing views of the relationship between gender and development have influenced research, policymaking and international agency thinking since the mid1960s. it is suggested that each term has been associated with a varying set of assumptions and has led to the formulation of different strategies
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Science Studies 2/2006 A Gendered Economy of Pleasure: Representations of Cars and Humans in Motoring Magazines Catharina Landström This paper analyses cultural signification in the co-production of gender and technology. Focusing on the popular genre of motoring magazines, it discerns a pattern organising men and women in opposite relations to cars. Men’s relationships with cars are premised on passion and pleasure while women are figured as rational and unable to attach emotionally to cars
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and mortal. Of course, this fall of Aphrodite does not go unnoticed by mythological interpretation, and there is a lot to explore. The story of Aphrodite may fall under many stereotypical interpretations, such as structuralism, social charter, and gender analysis, but she sometimes challenges them just as well. A look at structuralism using motifemes has a curious twist when it comes to the goddess of love. The main example of a motifeme pattern is as follows: the girl leaves home, the girl is
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