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Gender Diversity and Board Performance: Women's Experiences and Perspectives.
- Source :
- Human Resource Management; Mar2015, Vol. 54 Issue 2, p265-281, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Despite considerable progress that organizations have made during the past 20 years to increase the representation of women at board level, they still hold few board seats. Drawing on a qualitative study involving 30 companies with women directors in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ghana, we investigate how the relationship between gender in the boardroom and corporate governance operates. The findings indicate that the presence of a minority of women on the board has an insignificant effect on board performance. Yet the chairperson's role is vital in leading the change for recruiting and evaluating candidates and their commitment to the board with diversity and governance in mind. Our study also sheds light on the multifaceted reasons why women directors appear to be resisting the discourse of gender quotas. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- BUSINESS networks
COMMITMENT (Psychology)
COMPARATIVE studies
CORPORATIONS
INTERPERSONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LEADERSHIP
MEN
MINORITIES
ORGANIZATIONAL change
CULTURAL pluralism
STATISTICAL sampling
SOCIAL role
WOMEN
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIAL capital
SOCIAL support
THEMATIC analysis
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00904848
- Volume :
- 54
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Human Resource Management
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 103777590
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21694