Английский для социологов. Астафурова Т.Н. - 32 стр.

     7. SELF-PROMOTION
     Men find it easy to tell others about their successes. Women
tend to share or pass on the credit for a success.
    8. HUMOUR
    Men’s humour can be cruel — a man’s joke usually has a victim.
Female humour is less hurtful. A woman often jokes against herself.
     9. CAVEAT
     Many men have a female style of working. Equally many women
have a male approach, as Ms Stuart says.
     Many of the current management theorems — flatter
organisations 3, empowerment, managing by consensus 4 — have a
female style to them.


     Discuss
     Does your choice indicate a male- or female-oriented view of
management ability? Is it a fairly balanced view or rather heavily
biased? Which of these qualities do you think you possess yourself?
How do your views compare with those expressed in the article, She’s
the Boss?


                         SHE IS THE BOSS

      Business was invented by men and to a certain extent it is still «a
boy’s game». Less than 20 % of the managers in most European
companies are women, with fewer still in senior positions.
      Yet in Britain one in three new businesses are started up by
women and according to John Naisbitt and Patricia Auburdene, authors
of Megatrends 2000', since 1980 the number of self-employed women
has increased twice as fast as the number of self-employed men.
     THE GLASS CEILING SYNDROME
     Is it just a case of women whose career progress has been blocked
by their male colleagues — the so-called ‘glass ceiling syndrome’ —
__________
      3
       flatter organisation: organisations in which there are fewer
managers and people have equal status.
     4
       managing by consensus: managing by getting everyone to agree.


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