Leadership and Management

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Leadership and Management
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Introduction
It is important to attract and procure effective workforce in the contemporary corporate
world. The factors which pose great challenge in order to ensure proper representation and
equality in employment are competition in international labor, proposed initiatives for female
representation, political pressure to ensure gender diversity. A workforce which is diverse in
nature and has proper representation of all genders, attract better customer base and add value to
the workforce. It also helps the organization to have the best and talented employees doing their
job to enhance performance.
The Paradox of Diversity Initiatives: When Organizational Needs Differ from Employee
Preferences
The representation of women in the higher order of hierarchy in organizations, in most of
the countries across the globe is low. In this article, it has been charted out about the ways in
which the organizations were reluctant and indifferent towards the needs to ensure and
implement measures to promote fair representation of women employees. The consciousness
exist in the organizations to retain the best potential employees and increase the proportion of
women employees in an organization. Many organization choose to ignore the effectiveness of
such an initiative so that other employees, who do not perceive it in the same way, get affected
negatively or offensively. Identity consciousness have been an issue in the last few decades and
therefore, it has been intended to increase awareness and acknowledgement of the same in
organizations. The experiment which have been conducted to examine the effects of indifference
and identity blind effecting organization and people’s intention have been calculated with a
design of N= 693. Counterfactual thinking was used in the article, which has been derived from
the fairness theory for investigating the effect of upcoming gender quota mandate which has

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been proposed by the government. Gender equality in organization, especially in the higher
hierarchical is very essential in business perspectives and morally. Organizations are often
cautious about executing initiatives which have inclusive approach and intend towards
promoting fair representation of women. Identity consciousness act as a limiting factor. The
experiment approximately had 9000 people participating in it through an online link, based on
which the study has been conducted.
The initiative to bring change in the organizational framework and top management
positions, majorly comprised of external measures such as legislations. These can only be the
vehicles for such changes rather than actually being the drivers for bringing change in the
perceptions of people. When there will be enough women in the top management positions, it
will no longer be an issue people putting up pretense with. It will however, lead to equal and
diverse perceptions of the stakeholders which will help in overcoming the barriers and paradoxes
in management structure.
Toward Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards: Evaluating Government Quotas (EU)
Versus Shareholder Resolutions (Us) from the Perspective of Third Wave Feminism
The article argues about the different agendas which the EU and US governments took in
order to ascertain gender diversity in the top positions of corporate boards. These measures were
taken in order to bring rapid change in the society and perception. However it resulted in some
damaging effect. The aim was to promote gender diversity and acceptance of positive change
within the organizations, with fair and equal representation of all gender. This was indicated in
the statistical measures of the board. The quotes of representation was a drastic change which
was not as successful for its rigid regime. The US government has taken an initiative which is
endogenous in nature to deal with the situation of unequal representation of women which