Virginia E Schein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1607368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia E Schein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia E |
| FAMILY NAME | Schein |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEIN V E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gettysburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women in management: Reflections and projections
Purpose A major barrier to women's progress in management worldwide continues to be the gender stereotyping of the managerial position. The purpose of the paper is to examine how this “think manager – think male” attitude has changed over the three decades since the author's initial research and to consider the implications of the outcomes for women's advancement in management today. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the author's rese…
The Functions of Work-related Group Participation for Poor Women in Developing Countries: An Exploratory Look
The purpose of this research was to take an exploratory look at the psychological functions of par ticipation in work-related groups for poor women in developing countries. Specifically, the research examined the attitudes of poor women in Nicaragua towards various aspects ofgroup membership and the self-reported attitudinal and behavioural changes that occurred as a result of participation in the group. A total of 57 women from eight different w…
A Global Look at Psychological Barriers to Women's Progress in Management
In the early 1970s Schein identified managerial sex typing as a major psychological barrier to the advancement of women in the United States. The globalization of management brings to the forefront the need to examine the relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics in the international arena. A review of the replications of the Schein research in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan p…
Poor Women and Work in the Third World: A Research Agenda for Organisational Psychologists
The purpose of the article is to draw the attention of organisational psychologists to the realities of poor women's work experiences in the Third World and provide a research plan forstudying these issues. Based upon interview and observational data, the article describes three cases of working women in Nicaragua and raises research questions emanating from these work situations. The work sites are a microenterprise development project, the maqu…
Think manager—think male: A global phenomenon
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success was examined among 361 male and 228 female management students in Japan and the People's Republic of China. The results revealed that males and females in both countries perceive that successful middle managers possess characteristics, attitudes and temperaments more commonly ascribed to men in general than to women in general. These re…
Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty
Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about their deep committment to the children they are raising in poverty, about the abuse they have endured, about their eagerness for meaningful work, and about their inventiveness in stretching scarce dollars. In a policy debate increasingly dominated by shrill, punitive voices, Schein argues that the exper…
Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty
Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about their deep committment to the children they are raising in poverty, about the abuse they have endured, about their eagerness for meaningful work, and about their inventiveness in stretching scarce dollars. In a policy debate increasingly dominated by shrill, punitive voices, Schein argues that the exper…
Power, Sex and Systems
Examines the power‐related properties of professional and organizational systems and considers their influence on reactions to sexual harassment. It is argued that, when the socio‐cultural power model of male dominance operates within pluralistic/political professional and organizational systems, these systems can become breeding‐grounds for sexual harassment behaviours that are tolerated rather than told on. A contrast between careers within sys…
The Work/Family Interface: Challenging “Corporate Convenient”
Despite the high interest in work/family issues, little attention has been paid to changing the design and structure of managerial work so as to facilitate the work/family interface. Outdated work designs and unquestioned assumptions about “how things are done” may be a significant barrier to women′s advancement in management. Proposes that human resource management professionals need to examine managerial work from the perspective: “What activit…
Sex role stereotyping and requisite management characteristics: A cross cultural look
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success was examined among 497 male and 328 female management students in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany. Three forms of the 92‐item Schein Descriptive Index were used to define sex role stereotypes and characteristics of successful managers. The results revealed that males in all three countries perceive that successful middle managers po…
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics among college students
Organizational Attraction and the Person-Environment Fit
The purpose of the research was to test the hypothesis that individuals who score high on a particular personality characteristic are more likely to be attracted to an organization reflective of that characteristic than individuals who are low on that characteristic. Three empirical studies using a total sample of 385 advanced management candidates tested the hypothesis. Each study focused on one particular personality characteristic: Dominance, …
Examining an Illusion: The Role of Deceptive Behaviors In Organizations
Viewing organizations as political environments, the paper examines the nature and function of deceptive behaviors in organizations. Key concepts presented are the personal and work-related power acquisition behaviors of individuals and the differential exhibition of these behaviors within highand low-slack organizational systems. Within the framework of deceptive behaviors as a function of the form of power acquisition behaviors and nature of th…
Supervisors' reactions to flexible working hours
The study examined the reactions of 63 supervisors within 12 work units of a large eastern United States insurance company to a 4 month experimental flexible working hours programme. The supervisors perceived a positive impact on productivity of their units, employee honesty, unit administration, employee time handling and employee work habits. Some possible negative consequences and areas for future research are discussed
Individual Privacy and Personnel Psychology: The Need for a Broader Perspective
This article examines the status of personnel psychology with regard to its concern with issues of individual privacy and reviews legislative activities in the privacy area relevant to the profession. It is argued that both personnel psychologists and the legislative sector have taken a narrow view of privacy, one that ignores the broader aspects of employee and applicant attitudes toward selection and assessment procedures and the impact of thes…
The woman industrial psychologist: Illusion or reality
A Global Look at Psychological Barriers to Women's Progress in Management
In the early 1970s Schein identified managerial sex typing as a major psychological barrier to the advancement of women in the United States. The globalization of management brings to the forefront the need to examine the relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics in the international arena. A review of the replications of the Schein research in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan p…
Sex role stereotyping and requisite management characteristics: A cross cultural look
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success was examined among 497 male and 328 female management students in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany. Three forms of the 92‐item Schein Descriptive Index were used to define sex role stereotypes and characteristics of successful managers. The results revealed that males in all three countries perceive that successful middle managers po…
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics among college students
Examining an Illusion: The Role of Deceptive Behaviors In Organizations
Viewing organizations as political environments, the paper examines the nature and function of deceptive behaviors in organizations. Key concepts presented are the personal and work-related power acquisition behaviors of individuals and the differential exhibition of these behaviors within highand low-slack organizational systems. Within the framework of deceptive behaviors as a function of the form of power acquisition behaviors and nature of th…
Individual Privacy and Personnel Psychology: The Need for a Broader Perspective
This article examines the status of personnel psychology with regard to its concern with issues of individual privacy and reviews legislative activities in the privacy area relevant to the profession. It is argued that both personnel psychologists and the legislative sector have taken a narrow view of privacy, one that ignores the broader aspects of employee and applicant attitudes toward selection and assessment procedures and the impact of thes…
The woman industrial psychologist: Illusion or reality
The woman industrial psychologist: Illusion or reality
Individual Privacy and Personnel Psychology: The Need for a Broader Perspective
This article examines the status of personnel psychology with regard to its concern with issues of individual privacy and reviews legislative activities in the privacy area relevant to the profession. It is argued that both personnel psychologists and the legislative sector have taken a narrow view of privacy, one that ignores the broader aspects of employee and applicant attitudes toward selection and assessment procedures and the impact of thes…
Supervisors' reactions to flexible working hours
The study examined the reactions of 63 supervisors within 12 work units of a large eastern United States insurance company to a 4 month experimental flexible working hours programme. The supervisors perceived a positive impact on productivity of their units, employee honesty, unit administration, employee time handling and employee work habits. Some possible negative consequences and areas for future research are discussed
Examining an Illusion: The Role of Deceptive Behaviors In Organizations
Viewing organizations as political environments, the paper examines the nature and function of deceptive behaviors in organizations. Key concepts presented are the personal and work-related power acquisition behaviors of individuals and the differential exhibition of these behaviors within highand low-slack organizational systems. Within the framework of deceptive behaviors as a function of the form of power acquisition behaviors and nature of th…
Organizational Attraction and the Person-Environment Fit
The purpose of the research was to test the hypothesis that individuals who score high on a particular personality characteristic are more likely to be attracted to an organization reflective of that characteristic than individuals who are low on that characteristic. Three empirical studies using a total sample of 385 advanced management candidates tested the hypothesis. Each study focused on one particular personality characteristic: Dominance, …
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics among college students
Sex role stereotyping and requisite management characteristics: A cross cultural look
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success was examined among 497 male and 328 female management students in the U.S., Great Britain and Germany. Three forms of the 92‐item Schein Descriptive Index were used to define sex role stereotypes and characteristics of successful managers. The results revealed that males in all three countries perceive that successful middle managers po…
The Work/Family Interface: Challenging “Corporate Convenient”
Despite the high interest in work/family issues, little attention has been paid to changing the design and structure of managerial work so as to facilitate the work/family interface. Outdated work designs and unquestioned assumptions about “how things are done” may be a significant barrier to women′s advancement in management. Proposes that human resource management professionals need to examine managerial work from the perspective: “What activit…
Power, Sex and Systems
Examines the power‐related properties of professional and organizational systems and considers their influence on reactions to sexual harassment. It is argued that, when the socio‐cultural power model of male dominance operates within pluralistic/political professional and organizational systems, these systems can become breeding‐grounds for sexual harassment behaviours that are tolerated rather than told on. A contrast between careers within sys…
Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty
Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about their deep committment to the children they are raising in poverty, about the abuse they have endured, about their eagerness for meaningful work, and about their inventiveness in stretching scarce dollars. In a policy debate increasingly dominated by shrill, punitive voices, Schein argues that the exper…
Think manager—think male: A global phenomenon
The relationship between sex role stereotypes and characteristics perceived as necessary for management success was examined among 361 male and 228 female management students in Japan and the People's Republic of China. The results revealed that males and females in both countries perceive that successful middle managers possess characteristics, attitudes and temperaments more commonly ascribed to men in general than to women in general. These re…
Working from the Margins: Voices of Mothers in Poverty
Virginia E. Schein shatters the stereotype of mothers on welfare. The women she interviewed in cities, towns, and rural areas talked to her about their deep committment to the children they are raising in poverty, about the abuse they have endured, about their eagerness for meaningful work, and about their inventiveness in stretching scarce dollars. In a policy debate increasingly dominated by shrill, punitive voices, Schein argues that the exper…
Poor Women and Work in the Third World: A Research Agenda for Organisational Psychologists
The purpose of the article is to draw the attention of organisational psychologists to the realities of poor women's work experiences in the Third World and provide a research plan forstudying these issues. Based upon interview and observational data, the article describes three cases of working women in Nicaragua and raises research questions emanating from these work situations. The work sites are a microenterprise development project, the maqu…
A Global Look at Psychological Barriers to Women's Progress in Management
In the early 1970s Schein identified managerial sex typing as a major psychological barrier to the advancement of women in the United States. The globalization of management brings to the forefront the need to examine the relationship between sex role stereotypes and requisite management characteristics in the international arena. A review of the replications of the Schein research in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, and Japan p…
The Functions of Work-related Group Participation for Poor Women in Developing Countries: An Exploratory Look
The purpose of this research was to take an exploratory look at the psychological functions of par ticipation in work-related groups for poor women in developing countries. Specifically, the research examined the attitudes of poor women in Nicaragua towards various aspects ofgroup membership and the self-reported attitudinal and behavioural changes that occurred as a result of participation in the group. A total of 57 women from eight different w…
Women in management: Reflections and projections
Purpose A major barrier to women's progress in management worldwide continues to be the gender stereotyping of the managerial position. The purpose of the paper is to examine how this “think manager – think male” attitude has changed over the three decades since the author's initial research and to consider the implications of the outcomes for women's advancement in management today. Design/methodology/approach The paper reviews the author's rese…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Economics (4 works)