Women In Business: Navigating Career Success

by Michael Bagby Dds, PhD, Ingrid Möller

Overview

Much has been written about equal opportunity issues but little has been published about how organisations might provide more structure and support to ensure women's progress to the most senior business levels. This book looks at the career experiences of a group of women managers and consider what helps, and what still hinders their progress.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230282803
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/22/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

VIKI HOLTON is Research Fellow at Ashridge Business School, UK. Her interests include surveying current trends in management and management development, best practice in career development, HR, equal opportunities and the development of women managers. She has undertaken work with employee attitude surveys, evaluation and benchmarking of human resource initiatives such as diversity and development. She is the author of many books and articles on gender diversity in organizations, and a member of a number of leading journals.

FIONA ELSA DENT is Director of Executive Education at Ashridge Business School. As a member of the Ashridge Management Committee, she is responsible for one of the two education faculty groups which manage programs, client relationships and deliver management development solutions across Ashridge. Dent is also involved with her colleagues in setting the strategic direction of the organization with a particular focus on human resources. At Ashridge, Fiona has Program and Client Director experience, and has worked with a range of organizations and clients on a national and international basis. Fiona teaches and consults in a broad spectrum of leadership, personal, interpersonal, and relationship skills and is trained in a range of psychometrics.

Table of Contents

Overview What are the Early Career Issues? Career Promoters - What Will Help Your Career? Career Hindrances - What Will Block Your Career? Women in Leadership - Looking at the Key Issues The Organizational Landscape - What's New and What Needs to Change Advise and What I Wish I'd Known Earlier in My Career Career Plan The Historical Perspective - Women and Their Careers: How Did We Get Here? Appendix - A Timeline of Women's Achievements, 1903 - 2011 Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

'...company culture and stereotyping still needs to change significantly in order for women to reach the top. Those who take the time to read Women in Business will find it a useful tool in tackling this issue.' - The Financial Times

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