Women and the New Business Leadership

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-32257-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 330 g

In The Woman's Place is in the Boardroom the authors put the business case for more women on company boards. In the next book they explained how to achieve it. Here the authors discuss the role women directors can play in the reform of corporate governance systems following recent financial, crises in leadership, governance and the economy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd, T.

Thomson, P.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmenskultur, Corporate Governance
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The New World The Implications of The New World For Leaders and Leadership Engagement of the Genders Lessons from the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme The International Perspective Nurturing Tomorrow's Leaders Quotas and Pipelines From Leaders to Leadership  References Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Peninah Thomson is a Partner of Praesta Partners, the UK's leading executive coaching firm, and
Director of the FTSE 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Programme. Her early career was in the UK Foreign Office and NATO, and subsequently as a Director of the London office of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She has worked extensively with chief executives and boards in the public and private sectors in the UK and abroad on strategy, organizational change and culture, and leadership. She is co-author of The Changing Culture of Leadership: Women Leaders' Voices (The Change Partnership Limited, 1999); and of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2008). She is an Advisor to the Center for Work-Life Policy, New York.

Tom Lloyd is a former editor of Financial Weekly and Management Today, was Founding Editor of
Gemini Consulting's quarterly management journal Transformation and wrote the 'Working Brief' column in the Sunday Telegraph for several years. He has written five books, including Managing Knowhow, with Karl-Erik Sveiby (Bloomsbury, 1987) and The 'nice' Company (Bloomsbury, 1990). He was also the co-author of the successful A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom and A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Roadmap with Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 2008).