tailieunhanh - Lecture Managing diversity in Australia: Chapter 10 - Glenda Strachan, Erica French, John Burgess

Chapter 10 - Women in management. The main contents of the chapter consist of the following: Women in management, industry segregation, barriers to women’s access to management, organisational approaches, importance of specific legislation, temporal flexibility,. | Chapter 10 Women in management Erica French and Alison Sheridan Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Women in management Despite early progress following equal opportunity legislation, female managers remain concentrated in lower management levels in Australia. The 2008 Australian Census of Women in Leadership shows women held 2% of CEO positions and of Directorships (down from 2006 figures). Women’s poor representation in management is consistent across metropolitan and regional Australia. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Industry segregation The labour force remains gender-segregated. Industry sectors where women hold the largest share of management positions: Health care and social assistance Education and training Accommodation and food services Women are poorly represented in industries where . | Chapter 10 Women in management Erica French and Alison Sheridan Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Women in management Despite early progress following equal opportunity legislation, female managers remain concentrated in lower management levels in Australia. The 2008 Australian Census of Women in Leadership shows women held 2% of CEO positions and of Directorships (down from 2006 figures). Women’s poor representation in management is consistent across metropolitan and regional Australia. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Industry segregation The labour force remains gender-segregated. Industry sectors where women hold the largest share of management positions: Health care and social assistance Education and training Accommodation and food services Women are poorly represented in industries where average earnings are higher (construction, mining, electricity, gas, water and waste services). Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Barriers to women’s access to management Over time, many factors have been identified to explain women’s limited access to management: Individual Social Organisational The focus of this chapter is on the responses by organisations to increasing women’s representation in management. Copyright 2010 McGraw-Hill Australia Pty Ltd PPTs to accompany Strachan, French and Burgess, Managing Diversity 10- Organisational approaches Equity structures and strategies – formalised HRM structures developed in response to EEO legislation. Identify conscious structures: those that explicitly and formally include demographic group identity in HR decisions Identify blind structures: those that do not explicitly include demographic identity in HR decisions. Konrad and Linnehan (1995) .