talented women who switch firms maintain their stardom, and their new employer’s share price holds steady. Groysberg provides two explanations for this discrepancy:
• Unlike men, high-performing women build their success on portable, external relationships —with clients and other outside contacts.• Women considering job changes weigh more factors then men do, especially cultural fit, values, and managerial style.These strategies enable women to transition more successfully to new companies. And that has crucial implications for all professionals. By understanding successful women’s career strategies, women and men can strengthen their ability to shine in any setting."
So, organizations can help people become successful by letting them build networks externally? Huge career implications for men from this research, also the need to focus away from only compensation to assessing the fit of the organizational culture with their personality and work styles.
I need to study the research in detail.
Two names you can start the research with,Carly Fiorina and Patricia Russo.
ReplyDeleteHave to communicate this to our clients, dont we. Generally though, we have noticed big firms, mainly in the finance sector, prefer to hire women for senior positions nowadays. Whats your experience?
ReplyDeleteRead this in a magazine. "Being a woman means you can get away with asking a lot more questions. But you cant be two guys at a pub striking a deal."- said by DMD, JP Morgan Charles Alexander, to Vedika Bhandarkar, MD and Head Investment Banking, same co.