Despite recent gains, women still face the“glass ceiling” – an invisible barrier thatblocks their entry into top executivepositions. Explanations for women′s lack ofsuccess range…
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Despite recent gains, women still face the “glass ceiling” – an invisible barrier that blocks their entry into top executive positions. Explanations for women′s lack of success range from blaming men for discrimination to blaming women themselves. Rather than blaming the people in organisations, it is useful to analyse the task facing women managers. It is argued that understanding the inherent difficulties in women′s work can provide a new perspective on why women have difficulty in achieving top positions. Recent work in cognitive psychology is helping us learn more about the processes involved in reaching high levels of performance. Using these theories and concepts to analyse the task facing women managers, new ways can be developed to help women develop higher levels of managerial skill.
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Tricia Vanucci and Brian H. Kleiner
The concept of Fear of Success is definedand its correlates identified. The role offamily interactions and culture in thedevelopment of Fear and Success is alsoexamined. Methods…
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The concept of Fear of Success is defined and its correlates identified. The role of family interactions and culture in the development of Fear and Success is also examined. Methods of coping with Fear of Success in terms of both the individual and the organisation are discussed.
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In Metro Vancouver, Vaisakhi celebrations are organized by local Sikh gurdwaras to mark the Punjabi harvest season and the anniversary of the Sikh Khalsa, which was formed in…
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In Metro Vancouver, Vaisakhi celebrations are organized by local Sikh gurdwaras to mark the Punjabi harvest season and the anniversary of the Sikh Khalsa, which was formed in 1699. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Vaisakhi celebrations have become mechanisms for state institutions to refigure and extend their racial authority over Sikh places and populations through their coordinated appearances at these public events. These appearances are analyzed to reveal how contemporary racial states are characterized by complex conditions of visibility and public identification that obscure and foreclose the racial conditions of their authority.
Design/methodology/approach
The data analyzed for this paper were generated through observational fieldwork at Vaisakhi celebrations and extensive archival and media research on the changing racial governance of Sikh and South Asian populations.
Findings
The results show that, in Metro Vancouver, racial modes of governance have created “post-racial” relations between the state’s public visages of diversity and accessibility and its expanded legal regulation of the social and political places of local Sikh populations.
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The concept of political appearances is developed to explain how contemporary racial states reproduce and augment their authority through discursive practices of public engagement with minority populations as well as the specific aesthetic conditions of these engagements. The paper also offers important cautions against state practices that expand the presence of law enforcement within marginalized communities by showing how this enhanced visibility can engender forms of racialization.