Review of business management literature from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada identified the following: the images of high flyer, fast track, and high achiever; the meaning of success; emphasis on performance; corporate rites of passage; and opportunities for women to be high flyers. (SK)

Discusses how flatter organizations provide fewer opportunities for career progression, requiring new ways to reward performance and individual responsibility for career development. Notes that essential career competencies are optimizing career prospects, using career planning skills, engaging in personal development, and balancing work and…

Analysis of the German situation shows gradual erosion of the traditional relationship between career progression and further training. Diagonal career patterns are needed to replace traditional vertical paths in new, less-hierarchical organizational structures. (SK)

Develops a formula to describe faculty salary systems quantitatively, whether based on seniority, merit, discrimination, or personal favoritism. An Alabama study shows that chaos is dominant in determining salaries. Universities should offer competitive salaries and develop pay structures based on objective and relevant criteria. Includes six…

Examines the psychological aspect of affirmative action on the female beneficiary in terms of other people's perceptions, self-perception, and beneficiaries' reaction to an organization with an affirmative action plan. Strategies for providing a supportive organization environment and potential benefits are presented. (SK)

In Australia, a sample of 50 female and 52 male chief executive officers (CEOs) and 53 top women managers was drawn from a larger survey. Results showed interpersonal and organizational situation factors (such as female management hierarchy, personal encouragement) were more associated with women CEOs' status. Status was less related to…

In 1987 and 1993, 676 business administration graduates (49% men, 51% women) completed surveys showing the following: fewer women remained in full-time work in midcareer; those still employed full time earned 19% less than men, worked fewer hours, and were promoted less. Although women were just as satisfied as men in midcareer, they had been more…

The New York State Division of Budget uses a decentralized system to assess promotion candidates by comparing their training, experience, and recent performance to the proposed position. Managers and candidates find the system more effective than traditional written/oral exams. (SK)

A comparison of earnings, education, mobility, interactions with subordinates and supervisors, job satisfaction, promotion, and turnover of men and women in middle-management federal civil service found that women have more problems with supervisors, are overall as satisfied with their treatment as men are, but are more likely to say they lost a…

Although nursing educators must use academic criteria for faculty advancement, they should customized them to reflect the need of nursing faculty not only to be good teachers and researchers but also to maintain expertise in nursing practice. (SK)

The consensus conference on learning disabilities and employment sponsored by the President's Committee on Employment of Persons with Disabilities in May 1990 is described. Decisions and proposals made in the key areas of work preparation, vocational entry, reasonable accommodation, job advancement, socioadaptability, attitudes, and definitions…

Some companies are finding ways to manage a culturally diverse work force: analyzing work force composition, increasing awareness of attitudinal differences and diversity issues, thinking interculturally about problems, mentoring diverse employees, making standards fluid enough for all achievers, and rewarding successful managers of diverse…

A study investigated 454 internal promotions among the administrative and professional staff in a large public research university over a three-year period. Analysis indicated that despite controls for education, experience, age, and prior position, women received significantly less return to their administrative positions than men. (Author/MSE)

Discusses the writing of textbooks by professors and considers whether or to what extent it should be regarded as a scholarly activity. Analyzes textbooks as registers of professional identity, how composition is comparable to other disciplines, and how the writers value the experience of the classroom. (HB)

A humanistically oriented counseling background has both positive and negative influences on becoming a successful administrator in higher education. Information from former Association for Humanistic Education and Development officers who have moved into administrative roles provides insight on these influences. (Author)