Cover Image

The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces

Gender issues at the workplaces receive immense importance from the researchers all over the world. This study emphasizes on the core questions: how men and women maintain networks in the organizations and whether their networking strategies are different from each other. Most of the studies on this...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hossain, Dewan Mahboob, Rokis, Rohaiza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015
Subjects:
HQ1101 Women. Feminism
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/1/2015_ASS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/47141
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
id my.iium.irep.48383
record_format dspace
spelling my.iium.irep.483832016-12-19T08:33:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/ The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces Hossain, Dewan Mahboob Rokis, Rohaiza HQ1101 Women. Feminism HQ The family. Marriage. Woman Gender issues at the workplaces receive immense importance from the researchers all over the world. This study emphasizes on the core questions: how men and women maintain networks in the organizations and whether their networking strategies are different from each other. Most of the studies on this issue conducted so far are mainly based on the developed economic-based nations. This particular study however looks into this issue in the context of a developing economy of Bangladesh. By taking an old, well-reputed and large public University as a case, this study concludes that men and women have different networking strategies. Women’s networks mainly revolve around women. Moreover, women are not that much interested in establishing and maintaining networks like men in the workplaces. Rather, women remain more concerned with their family affairs. These situations apparently do not directly beneficial to women on a whole. Working women are deprived from recruitment, promotion and obtaining strategic positions at the workplaces. Men, on the other hand, due to their solid and significant social networking manage to maintain positive working avenues and therefore secure their positions further Canadian Center of Science and Education 2015-05 Article REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/1/2015_ASS.pdf Hossain, Dewan Mahboob and Rokis, Rohaiza (2015) The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces. Asian Social Science, 11 (9). pp. 11-20. ISSN 1911-2017 http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/47141 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v11n9p11
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
building IIUM Library
collection Institutional Repository
continent Asia
country Malaysia
content_provider International Islamic University Malaysia
content_source IIUM Repository (IREP)
url_provider http://irep.iium.edu.my/
language English
topic HQ1101 Women. Feminism
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
spellingShingle HQ1101 Women. Feminism
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Hossain, Dewan Mahboob
Rokis, Rohaiza
The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
description Gender issues at the workplaces receive immense importance from the researchers all over the world. This study emphasizes on the core questions: how men and women maintain networks in the organizations and whether their networking strategies are different from each other. Most of the studies on this issue conducted so far are mainly based on the developed economic-based nations. This particular study however looks into this issue in the context of a developing economy of Bangladesh. By taking an old, well-reputed and large public University as a case, this study concludes that men and women have different networking strategies. Women’s networks mainly revolve around women. Moreover, women are not that much interested in establishing and maintaining networks like men in the workplaces. Rather, women remain more concerned with their family affairs. These situations apparently do not directly beneficial to women on a whole. Working women are deprived from recruitment, promotion and obtaining strategic positions at the workplaces. Men, on the other hand, due to their solid and significant social networking manage to maintain positive working avenues and therefore secure their positions further
format Article
author Hossain, Dewan Mahboob
Rokis, Rohaiza
author_facet Hossain, Dewan Mahboob
Rokis, Rohaiza
author_sort Hossain, Dewan Mahboob
title The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
title_short The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
title_full The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
title_fullStr The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
title_full_unstemmed The power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a Gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
title_sort power of social and political networking for recruitment and promotion for strategic positions: a gender perspective on work relations at workplaces
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2015
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/1/2015_ASS.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/48383/
http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/47141
_version_ 1643613354508419072
score 13.211869

Similar Items