New Captain but a Sinking Ship? The Influence of HR Director’s Gender on the Status of the HR Department — A Longitudinal Study

Astrid Reichel, Julia Brandl and Wolfgang Mayrhofer

Chapter 2 in Global Trends in Human Resource Management, 2013, pp 35-53 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The past decade has seen profound transformations within the HR profession, one of which is the dramatic increase in the number of women (Reichel, Brandl & Mayrhofer, 2010). Today, in numerous industrialized countries, women represent the majority of HR specialists, and increasingly occupy managerial HR positions (Brandl, Mayrhofer & Reichel, 2008a). Such a rise in the proportion of women working in an occupation is termed ‘feminization’ (e.g. Philipson, 1993; Reskin & Roos, 1990; Roos, 1997). This chapter examines the effect of feminization on the status of HRM.

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Status Loss; Survey Round; Strategic Human Resource Management; Occupational Field (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137304438_3

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