Women in Management Review: Volume 13 Issue 1

Do women and men communicate differently at work? An empirical study in Hong Kong

Catherine W. Ng

Some studies, mainly in the West, have suggested that women are more encouraging in their communication styles than men, especially when the conversation is about a personal…

Women in management: a Malaysian perspective

Manjulika Koshal, Ashok K. Gupta, Rajindar Koshal

Surveys of women in management postitions in the USA and elsewhere have indicated a notion of masculine managerial model of “organizational man”. Malaysia presents an interesting…

The impact of gender and its interaction with role and status on the use of tag questions in meetings

Alison C.T. Calnan, Marilyn J. Davidson

The use of tag questions in speech has been hypothesised to make speech sound uncertain and tentative although Holmes (1984) suggests that there are three different types of tag…

Should we teach women to interrupt? Cultural variables in management communication courses

Edmond H. Weiss, Bronwyn Fisher

The “universal” principles of effective communication taught in most management communication courses ‐ directness, simplicity, forcefulness ‐ are, from an inter‐cultural…

Women Entrepreneurs: : Moving beyond the Glass Ceiling

Cheryl J. Travers