Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors that predict competency needs of managers using quantitative methodology. Design/methodology/approach – For the study, 31 individual competencies were analysed. The study is confined to a fully integrated telecommunication...

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to examine the effect of gender openness on female student representation within sport management preparation programs. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was sent to 172 undergraduate and graduate sport management preparation...

Purpose – This paper aims to draw conceptual links between the papers in this special issue, arguing that diversity and equality research is located within varying socio‐political, socio‐demographic and geo‐political contexts and should therefore be seen as fluid and subject to ongoing...

Purpose – The paper's aim is to examine how diversity management discourse reproduces heteronormative essentialist notions of identity in organisations. Design/methodology/approach – This is a critical analysis of diversity management discourse that draws upon concepts, frames and the...

Purpose – This paper aims to provide a framework for career counselling designed particularly to support the career development of mid‐career women managers. This approach is referred to as an autobiographical approach to career counselling. The practical application of the approach is...

Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the career experiences of seven women who have developed successful careers in the Chinese information technology (IT) industry, focusing on the way they managed their careers and the implications this has for women's career theory in China....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to understand how the concept of diversity management is translated and adapted into the Danish societal context. The authors therefore seek to answer these questions: to what extent do larger Danish companies experience a need to practice diversity...

Purpose – The paper looks at the tensions and conflict between work and family life that arise from work intensification in higher education, in the particular context of Portuguese academe. Drawing on the concept of work‐family culture, the paper aims to discuss its influence on the level...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – A brief description of the Gender in Management track at the 2007 British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference held at Warwick Business School and an outline of the papers in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion of some salient research relating to mentoring for women managers. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws mainly upon writing and research from the UK, USA, Canada and Australia to explore some of the issues that continue...