Discretionary power of project managers in knowledge intensive firms and gender issues [r-libre/159]

Chasserio, Stéphanie, & Legault, Marie-Josée (2010). Discretionary power of project managers in knowledge intensive firms and gender issues. Revue canadienne des sciences de l’administration – Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 27 (3), 236-248. https://doi.org/10.1002/CJAS.147

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Item Type:	Journal Articles
Refereed:	Yes
Status:	Published
Abstract:	The scarcity of women among the highly qualified professionals in business-to-business information and communication technologies (ICT), either in Europe andor in North America, has been noted as recently as the late 1990’s (Panteli, Stack, Atkinson, & Ramsay, 1999). The organization and management of work in such organizations firms is typically project-based. This has many consequences, including: long working hours with fierce resistance to shorter hoursany reduction, unpaid overtime, high management expectations of employee flexibility to meet unanticipated client demands, and the need for employees to negotiate flexible work arrangements on a case-by-cases basis with a project manager who often has much discretion on whether to accommodate such requests. We found that women are particularly disadvantaged in such a system, which could partly explain their under-representation in such jobs.
Additional Information:	THIS PAPER IS A DRAFT OF A LATER PUBLISHED DIFFERENT VERSION IN REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES ADMINISTRATIVES – CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, VOL. 27, NO 3, P. 236–248
Official URL:	http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cjas.14...
Depositor:	Legault, Marie-Josée
Owner / Manager:	Marie-Josée Legault
Deposited:	14 Sep 2014 21:18
Last Modified:	12 Mar 2017 16:35

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