Val Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Val Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Val |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cranfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
French supervisory board gender composition and quota threat
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how an environmental threat (possible quotas for female supervisory directors) might change supervisory board gender composition in SBF120 French company boards between 2008 and 2010. Design/methodology/approach – From a census of supervisory board membership of SBF120 companies in France in January 2008 and December 2010, data were obtained to test hypotheses relating to changes in gender composi…
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Challenging ethnic and gender identities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how UK black professionals construct and negotiate ethnic/gender identities at work. Design/methodology/approach Separate semi‐structured focus groups for three females and four males are used. Findings Ethnicity, gender and their intersection play important roles in identity construction of black UK professionals, who frequently encounter identity‐challenging situations as they interact with explic…
Women Directors on Corporate Boards
Manuscript Type: Review Research Question/Issue: This review examines how gender diversity on corporate boards influences corporate governance outcomes that in turn impact performance. We describe extant research on theoretical perspectives, characteristics, and impact of women on corporate boards (WOCB) at micro, meso, and macro levels: individual, board, firm, and industry/environment. Research Finding/Results: To the best of our knowledge, thi…
Female Presence on Corporate Boards
A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from 43 countries. We suggest that women’s representation on corporate boards may be shaped by the larger environment, including the social, political and economic struct…
Women in formal corporate networks
Purpose To investigate women's corporate networks, and the reported benefits for the women and their employers. To gain insight into the motivation for these voluntary activities, by drawing on organisational citizenship theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the issue using in‐depth interviews with chairs and organisers of 12 women's networks, and triangulated the data with an email survey resulting in 164 responses from network …
Constructing a professional identity
Role models are often identified as important for aspiring managers as they seek \ninsights into how to develop themselves in their careers. There are, however, \nstill few female role models at the top of companies. This project explores how \nyoung careerminded women use role models. It draws on previous research into how \nprofessionals experimented with their identity projections to become partners in \nUS professional service firms. In-depth…
The fallacy of integration
Many organisations are encouraging their staff to integrate work and non‐work, but a qualitative study of young professionals found that many crave greater segregation rather than more integration. Most wished to build boundaries to separate the two and simplify a complex world. Where working practices render traditional boundaries of time and space ineffective, this population seems to create new idiosyncratic boundaries to segregate work from n…
The 2002 female FTSE index and women directors
The stagnation in the position of female directorships in the UK’s FTSE 100 companies appears to be very slowly changing. After a review of previous research on women directors, this paper reports the statistics on women directors in the top 100 listed companies. The paper comments on the findings regarding companies with women directors, female directorships and the women holding those directorships. It reviews the backgrounds (demographic profi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
This paper reports an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation. The aim was to ascertain whether there were gender differences in the career facilitators and barriers met en route to the top. The six male and six female directors were asked about the further obstacles which they perceived would have to be faced. Vi…
Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Organizations
Sex role stereotyping and requisites of successful top managers
The issue of management style and women’s progression has been highlighted in the past, but women’s perceptions of successful management styles are important too, especially where women’s own preferred management style differs from their view of the top team. Such differences can lead to women not putting themselves forward for promotion. Reports a study of male and female managers in one very large insurance company. Uses the personality attribu…
Profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female banking managers across Europe
Personal conceptions of what constitutes a “successful manager” are important, as they influence an individual’s personal development and subsequent careers. This study investigates profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female managers working in ten European banks operating in Luxembourg. Respondents completed the personality attributes questionnaire (PAQ) and took part in semi‐structured interviews. Results are presented from the 6…
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
Challenging ethnic and gender identities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how UK black professionals construct and negotiate ethnic/gender identities at work. Design/methodology/approach Separate semi‐structured focus groups for three females and four males are used. Findings Ethnicity, gender and their intersection play important roles in identity construction of black UK professionals, who frequently encounter identity‐challenging situations as they interact with explic…
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
French supervisory board gender composition and quota threat
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how an environmental threat (possible quotas for female supervisory directors) might change supervisory board gender composition in SBF120 French company boards between 2008 and 2010. Design/methodology/approach – From a census of supervisory board membership of SBF120 companies in France in January 2008 and December 2010, data were obtained to test hypotheses relating to changes in gender composi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
Gendered Meanings of Commitment from High Technology Engineering Managers in the United Kingdom and Sweden
This article considers why women managers are often perceived to be ‘less committed’ at work than men, through an exploration of male and female managers' meanings of ‘commitment’, to see whether their meanings are shared. Despite a large body of literature on the concept of commitment, managers' own meanings of commitment have not been reported. In general, engineers reported that they used the term ‘committed’ without defining what it meant. Th…
Profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female banking managers across Europe
Personal conceptions of what constitutes a “successful manager” are important, as they influence an individual’s personal development and subsequent careers. This study investigates profiles of “successful managers” held by male and female managers working in ten European banks operating in Luxembourg. Respondents completed the personality attributes questionnaire (PAQ) and took part in semi‐structured interviews. Results are presented from the 6…
Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Organizations
Sex role stereotyping and requisites of successful top managers
The issue of management style and women’s progression has been highlighted in the past, but women’s perceptions of successful management styles are important too, especially where women’s own preferred management style differs from their view of the top team. Such differences can lead to women not putting themselves forward for promotion. Reports a study of male and female managers in one very large insurance company. Uses the personality attribu…
The 2002 female FTSE index and women directors
The stagnation in the position of female directorships in the UK’s FTSE 100 companies appears to be very slowly changing. After a review of previous research on women directors, this paper reports the statistics on women directors in the top 100 listed companies. The paper comments on the findings regarding companies with women directors, female directorships and the women holding those directorships. It reviews the backgrounds (demographic profi…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
This paper reports an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation. The aim was to ascertain whether there were gender differences in the career facilitators and barriers met en route to the top. The six male and six female directors were asked about the further obstacles which they perceived would have to be faced. Vi…
The fallacy of integration
Many organisations are encouraging their staff to integrate work and non‐work, but a qualitative study of young professionals found that many crave greater segregation rather than more integration. Most wished to build boundaries to separate the two and simplify a complex world. Where working practices render traditional boundaries of time and space ineffective, this population seems to create new idiosyncratic boundaries to segregate work from n…
Women in formal corporate networks
Purpose To investigate women's corporate networks, and the reported benefits for the women and their employers. To gain insight into the motivation for these voluntary activities, by drawing on organisational citizenship theory. Design/methodology/approach The paper explores the issue using in‐depth interviews with chairs and organisers of 12 women's networks, and triangulated the data with an email survey resulting in 164 responses from network …
Constructing a professional identity
Role models are often identified as important for aspiring managers as they seek \ninsights into how to develop themselves in their careers. There are, however, \nstill few female role models at the top of companies. This project explores how \nyoung careerminded women use role models. It draws on previous research into how \nprofessionals experimented with their identity projections to become partners in \nUS professional service firms. In-depth…
Female Presence on Corporate Boards
A growing body of ethics research investigates gender diversity and governance on corporate boards, at individual and firm levels, in single country studies. In this study, we explore the environmental context of female representation on corporate boards of directors, using data from 43 countries. We suggest that women’s representation on corporate boards may be shaped by the larger environment, including the social, political and economic struct…
Women Directors on Corporate Boards
Manuscript Type: Review Research Question/Issue: This review examines how gender diversity on corporate boards influences corporate governance outcomes that in turn impact performance. We describe extant research on theoretical perspectives, characteristics, and impact of women on corporate boards (WOCB) at micro, meso, and macro levels: individual, board, firm, and industry/environment. Research Finding/Results: To the best of our knowledge, thi…
Women partners leaving the firm
Purpose This paper is based on the experiences of 31 women who have recently left partner roles within an international management consultancy firm. The purpose of this paper is to explore discursively their perceptions of choice within their decisions to leave. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 31 women using semi‐structured telephone interviews, a 66 per cent response rate. A discursive approach to analysis was adopted. Findi…
Challenging ethnic and gender identities
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how UK black professionals construct and negotiate ethnic/gender identities at work. Design/methodology/approach Separate semi‐structured focus groups for three females and four males are used. Findings Ethnicity, gender and their intersection play important roles in identity construction of black UK professionals, who frequently encounter identity‐challenging situations as they interact with explic…
Locks and keys to the boardroom
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report an interview study with 12 directors in a major international telecommunications company, to identify the career paths which they took to reach board level in their organisation
French supervisory board gender composition and quota threat
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how an environmental threat (possible quotas for female supervisory directors) might change supervisory board gender composition in SBF120 French company boards between 2008 and 2010. Design/methodology/approach – From a census of supervisory board membership of SBF120 companies in France in January 2008 and December 2010, data were obtained to test hypotheses relating to changes in gender composi…
Director identity in pre- and post-crisis Iceland
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how directors’ roles and social identities are shaped by gender and board life stage, using pre- and post-crisis Iceland as the setting. Recent theoretical work suggests the importance of directors’ monitoring and resource provision roles at certain board life stages; however, there is limited empirical evidence of directors’ identification with these roles as well as social role identification as…
Gender Diversity and Inequality (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Public relations (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Accounting (5 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (4 works)