Factors Relating to Managerial Stereotypes: The Role of Gender of the Employee and the Manager and Management Gender Ratio

Journal of Business and Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-42

  Stoker, Janka I ^a   van der Velde, Mandy ^b   Lammers, Joris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender; Leadership; Management gender ratio; Managerial stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857056784     PISSN: 08893268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10869-011-9210-0     Document Type: Article

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