The ongoing pressure on organizations to utilize the Web and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools successfully should be based on a clear understanding of the organizational context including human and technological dimensions. As a part of this understanding, this paper attempts to explore managers’ attitudes towards Web and IT. In addition, the relationship between certain dem...

Women in professional science, engineering, and technology (SET) are underrepresented in SET organizations, and companies have undertaken a multitude of initiatives to remedy the problem. The outcomes of these efforts have been mixed, and the underrepresentation of women in SET continues. In this study, we examined the correlates of middle managers’ intentions to hire, promote, develop, and ret...

Much of the gender and disaster literature calls for more gender-sensitive disaster relief and research by focusing on the ways in which women are more vulnerable in a disaster or on their unique capabilities as community leaders or natural resource managers, which are often overlooked or underutilised in emergency management strategies. As well as seeking to overcome the (strategic) essentiali...

The main purpose of this paper was to highlight the relationship between causal attributions of career success with gender in the private sector organizations. It has already been suggested in literature that there is a close linkage between gender and attribution made and indeed attribution assigned is dependent on gender and synergistically related. A specific objective of this paper was to a...

Background: Effective cooperation between physicians and managers is difficult to achieve but is an important factor in successfully implementing improvement initiatives in hospitals. Intergroup literature suggests that large differences between groups hinder effective cooperation. Purposes: Analyze the variation on culture,stereotype,and satisfaction scores, within groups of physicians and man...

This study aims to identify how the perception of trustworthiness and website atmosphere influences customer trust and website image to enhance stickiness, as well as the extent to which gender moderates the relationships between the constructs. The results confirmed that trustworthiness and website atmosphere have positive impacts on customer trust and website image. Customer trust and website...

Extending tokenism theory, the authors investigate psychological climate of gender inequity as a way to understand how token women experience their work environments. In the first study, responses from a sample of 155 women across varied occupations confirm the expectation that token women tend to perceive their organizational climates to be inequitable for women. The results of a second survey...