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Title: EEO in senior management : women executives in Westpac
Related: Asia Pacific journal of human resources, Vol. 43, Issue 2, p.273-288
DOI: 10.1177/1038411105055063
Publisher: Sage Publications
Date: 2005
Author/Creator: Beck, Dominique
Author/Creator: Davis, Ed
Description: This paper reports on a case study of a best practice financial organisation in Australia that is committed to increasing its number of women at all managerial levels. By looking at Westpac’s process of cultural change in general and women executives’ attitudes and experiences in particular, this paper seeks to explain the generally slow and patchy progress that has been made in pursuit of EEO for female employees. Despite the introduction of equal employment opportunity policies in many organisations, gender inequality seems to persist in stereotyped perceptions embedded within organisational cultures. Nevertheless, it is encouraging to find that in the organisation studied here commitment to diversity goes beyond rhetoric. At the same time, it is recognised that more needs to be done to accelerate the rate of progress.
Description: 16 page(s)
Subject Keyword: corporate culture
Subject Keyword: cultural change
Subject Keyword: EEO
Subject Keyword: gender diversity
Subject Keyword: management
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Business
Organisation: Macquarie University. Division of Economic and Financial Studies

Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/20731
Identifier: ISSN:1744-7941
Identifier: mq-rm-2005002813
Language: eng
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