The Leadership Challenge: Women in Management (Hannah Piterman © March 2008)

• Introduction
• Foreword
• 1: Executive summary
• 2: Methodology
• 3: Context
• 4: The business response to women
• 5: Strategies for change
• 6: The drivers of business
• 7: Leadership and authority
• 8: Work/life balance
• 9: Dynamics
• 10: Successful women
• 11: The diversity challenge.
• Postscript
• References
• Appendixes

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Appendices

Interview questions

1. What is your age and current position?
2. Can you give me a brief work history?
3. What are your career aspirations?
4. Tell me about your life outside of work - family or other responsibilities?
5. How do you manage work life balance?
6. What is valued in your organisation?
7. What do you believe it takes to be successful in this organisation?
8. What traits and behaviours do successful people demonstrate?
9. Are there particular pathways that lead to success?
10. Do you believe you have had access to those pathways? OR
11. How would you describe your journey to a leadership position?
12. Do you believe you have had difficulties advancing your career? If so, what do you believe are factors which have created difficulties?
13. What are important relationships for you?
14. What do you do to nurture those relationships?
15. Do you regard the number of women at senior level reflects the talent pool of the organisation?
16. How do you believe women in authority are regarded in this organisation?
17. Do you believe women in this organisation have the same career paths as men?
    Why or why not?
18. How does this organisation assist women into positions of seniority?
19. What, in your opinion, are the reasons for the small number of women in senior management positions?

 

Abbreviations

ABS	Australian Bureau of Statistics
ACCI	Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry
AICD	Australian Institute of Company Directors
CARS	Centre for Applied Social Research
DEST	Department of Education, Science & Training
DTI	Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (UK)
EOWA	Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency
HREOC	Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
OECD	Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development
RMIT	Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
WISET	Women in Science Engineering and Technology Advisory Group

 

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