Management Review articles from March 1992

Management Review archives from March 1992

Flexing More Than Muscle: Employees Want Time on Their Side
March 1, 1992... It's the bout of the decade: In one corner stands workdesks piled high with papers, phones and fax machines ringing, computers churning out progress reports and people involved in other comer stands work's most ardent competitors: family and...

The '90S Woman Makes Strides Down Madison Avenue
March 1, 1992... The Avon lady is no longer cheerfully ringing suburban doorbells, and the chorus is no longer harmoniously crooning that gentlemen prefer Hanes. You won't spot that Maidenform woman showing up at business meetings in her underwear anymore, and...

Breaking the Glass ... or Just Window Dressing?
March 1, 1992... With all the zeal of a sideshow barker working the crowd, programs for the development of women in corporations have proliferated in the past 15 years. Sometimes what is behind the curtain, however, has turned out to be an inducement consisting...

Be Your Own Boss? Millions of Women Get Down to Business
March 1, 1992... If art imitates life, then 61year-old cartoon strip character Blondie Bumstead's foray last Labor Day into the entrepreneurial world is a sign of the times. When Blondie started up her own catering business unwittingly or not her creator tapped...

Career Goal: Corporate Treasurer
March 1, 1992... As vice president and treasurer of Monsanto Company in St. Louis, Juanita Hinshaw has the distinction of being one of two women vice presidents heading this Fortune 100 manufacturer of chemical, agricultural, pharmaceutical and food products....

Translate Fury into Action
March 1, 1992... The Hill-Thomas hearings last fall made Washington, and the rest of the country, cringe. Testimony included graphic accounts of Pornographic movies and bestial behavior. It was offensive at best, but the specific subject matter wasn't the real...

Job Candidates Wanted: Talented Women Please Apply
March 1, 1992... Are companies getting more serious about hiring women managers? Recruiters who run executive search firms around the country believe that women are being considered for key positions more often. They're almost always competing against men,...

What Do Women Want, Anyway?
March 1, 1992... The title of this column is a question that Sigmund Freud allegedly asked a colleague. The fact that men are still asking that question tells us where society is today, which isn't exactly a compliment. Having criticized my brothers, allow...

Emerging Technologies Offer New Competitive Opportunities
March 1, 1992... While it may be unnecessary to understand the intricate physics involved when you flip the wall switch to light up a room, it is important to know that there is indeed a switch, what to do with it, where it's located, and how to change the fuse....

Lessons out of School: The German Benchmark in Training
March 1, 1992... It's a common criticism: American secondary schools are not training students successfully to enter the workforce. Only 30 percent of American students are expected to graduate from college, yet today, those high schoolers who opt out of a...

Are You Visible?
March 1, 1992... Don't try to reach me today. I'm in transit. Except for 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. when I'll be materializing at a business meeting in Syracuse, N.Y Short meeting. Long trip. I'm trying to think of it as management-byflying-around, in the tradition of...

Dismantling the Glass Ceiling
March 1, 1992... In a keynote speech before New York City's labor/management I community, Rosalie Gaull Silberman, vice chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, defined the term "glass ceiling" as an invisible, inpenetrable barrier to advancement...