Managerial Career Choices: Evidence from South Australian Local Government

B S Jorgensen; J F Martin; Melissa Nursey-Bray

doi:10.1111/1467-8500.12269

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Managerial Career Choices: Evidence from South Australian Local Government

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Managerial Career Choices: Evidence from South Australian Local Government

B S Jorgensen, J F Martin and Melissa Nursey-Bray

Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol.77(4), pp.604-623

2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12269

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Abstract

Economics

Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Studies in Human Society

promotion intentions

career advancement

Theory of Planned Behaviour

women managers

gender

There are structural and individual factors that contribute to and compound the current and continuing under-representation of women in leadership and senior management positions. We explore these factors by investigating the beliefs and intentions of male and female senior managers with respect to applying for promotion to executive level in local government organisations in South Australia. Survey data from 148 senior managers indicated that men and women have similar belief structures when it comes to their intentions to apply for promotion in South Australian local government. The imbalance in the proportion of women and men in CEO positions in South Australian local government, we suggest, reflects earlier findings of the inherent bias towards men in the selection process for these positions. Our analysis supports a number of structural and managerial recommendations, which we believe will address this imbalance overtime

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Title: Managerial Career Choices: Evidence from South Australian Local Government
Authors: B S Jorgensen (Author) - Monash University
J F Martin (Author) - La Trobe University
Melissa Nursey-Bray (Author) - University of Adelaide
Publication details: Australian Journal of Public Administration, Vol.77(4), pp.604-623
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Date published: 2018
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8500.12269
ISSN: 0313-6647; 0313-6647
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451433902621
Output Type: Journal article

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