This thesis, submitted for the Cranfield DBA programme, examines and explores the impact of gender demography on male and female director’s role interpretations and contributions. The study was inspired by the scarcity of ...

Gender and ethnicity represent key bases upon which we differentiate ourselves from others and are also key fracture lines along which inequalities in the workplace manifest. The continued growth in the management literature ...

The aim of this research is to explore sex differences in undergraduates’ choices of potential employers. It focuses on a major employer (‘the Firm’), wishing to increase the number of job applications it receives from ...

The study examines the motivation, values and work reactions of mana- gerial job holders in manufacturing companies in a state of contrac- tion. The empirical investigation is in two parts. The first part, or pilot study, ...

The aim of this research is to investigate how managers define career success for themselves. It seeks to discover what differences there are in the way that women and men, and older and younger managers, see their own ...

The study examines the effect of role ambiguity as experienced by production supervisors, upon their attitudes to work and investigates the supervisory role with reference to perceptions of managers and supervisors. ...