Mitchell centre seminar series
| Dates: | 6 February 2019 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:30 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Tanja Sliskovic |
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Tanja Sliškovic, University of Zagreb
When Network Behaviors get Men and Women Penalized – Identifying Gender Congruence Through Social Network Analysis
We argue that gender roles influence managers’ professional social network attitudes. Analyzing perceptions of competence and affective comradery in the professional social networks of female and male managers, we observed how these factors related to upward career mobility for men and women. We show that women occupying high positions in organizational hierarchies have more relationships underlined with affect and evaluate their network members as more competent. For men, the opposite is true: the higher up in the organizational hierarchy they are, they report less competent network members, and less affect in their network ties. We suggest a dichotomy of agentic and communal network behaviors, which affect career upward mobility depending on how congruent network attitudes are with the prescribed gender roles for female and male managers. To further strengthen our argument, we conducted interviews with senior managers, and ran an experimental vignette study surveying 400 participants. The mixed-methods approach enabled us to have a triangulation of theory, qualitative and quantitative data, corroborating the proposed mechanism.
Speaker
Tanja Sliskovic
Organisation: University of Zagreb
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