When a candidate for the top management position is pre-associated with the firm, prior information exists that partially reveals his suitability for the position. In a dynamic framework of job matching, we show that in the presence of such pre-appointment information, the firm’s decision on managerial appointment differs in significant ways between inside and outside candidates. The difference...

this research has been conducted to study the social barriers for women to have managerial positions. to this end the glass ceiling theory and role conflict hypothesis have been proposed. the statistical population has been 323 employed female staff of bank melli in tehran who were selected through systematic sampling based on cochran’s sampling formula. findings suggest that the main social ob...

As organizations have increasingly invested in information technology (IT), they have looked for an IT workforce not just with technical skills but also with managerial ones. It has thus been paramount for the IT workforce to pursue a balance between two streams the technical and the managerial one. Accordingly, the IT professionals have had difficulties to deal with the increasing technical an...

In this study, on the basis of G. Hofstede and G. England’s research on organizational and managerial values, it is aimed to determine which problems arise from organizational and managerial values in the organization. Research data needed to achieve the objective come from 166 administrators with academic and administrative authority at faculties, colleges and vocational schools of a public un...

this study examined and prioritized personal factors especially gender to gain managerial position in physical education general departments of iran western region including provinces of kurdistan, ilam, kermanshah and hamadan. the methodology was descriptive-survey. the sample was equal to the population (n=260). the research instruments were personal characteristics questionnaire, management ...

The relationship between cerebro-cardiovascular events (CCE) and work-related factors was examined in a cohort of 899 treated hypertensive men who were aged 50-59 yr and working more than 7 portal to portal hours (PPH). During the follow-up of 2.8 yr (2,513 person-years), 27 cases of CCEs occurred, which were classified into 18 cases of stroke, 7 cases of acute myocardial infarction, and 2 case...