Enacting workplace culture change for excellence in research: a gender lens

Gender-based differences in culture in the Indian IT workplace

Global outsourcing increases the complexity of managing IT projects. Gender adds another level of difficulty when managing IT projects. Understanding country and gender -level differences may improve chances for success. This paper provides opportunities to better understand underlying country and gender differences of Indian IT workers. We used Hofstede’s value surveys module to analyse gender...

Knowing-doing gaps in the ICT workplace: gender and culture

Knowledge that is not applied, results in a ‘knowing-doing gap’. While education, training and knowledge management practices will affect what we know; how, when and with whom we use that knowledge will be mediated by cultural influences at the societal, organizational, group and individual levels. Based on a study involving 119 ICT workers in multicultural Australia, we found patterns of knowl...

Gender and Culture of Indian IT Workers Gender-based Differences in Culture in the Indian IT Workplace

Global outsourcing increases the complexity of managing IT projects. Gender adds another level of difficulty when managing IT projects. Understanding country and gender -level differences may improve chances for success. This paper provides opportunities to better understand underlying country and gender differences of Indian IT workers. We used Hofstede’s value surveys module to analyse gender...

RACE, GENDER, AND AUTHORITY IN THE WORKPLACE: Theory and Research

■ Abstract This chapter surveys sociological approaches to the study of job authority, including theoretical foundations, measurement, and emergence as an important dimension of social inequality. The focus here is mainly on studies of race and gender differences in the determinants of authority and the consequences of race and gender differences in authority for income. Despite significant adv...

Culture Change in Loma: a Preliminary Research Report