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The HR lady is on board: Untangling the link between HRM's feminine image and HRM's board representation
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Abstract In this paper, we untangle the relationship between the HRM occupation's feminine image and the representation of the HRM function on executive boards. A Monte Carlo simulation analysis of 172 executive boards in Austria, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden shows that women on boards are disproportio... view more
In this paper, we untangle the relationship between the HRM occupation's feminine image and the representation of the HRM function on executive boards. A Monte Carlo simulation analysis of 172 executive boards in Austria, Germany, France, Spain, and Sweden shows that women on boards are disproportionately often responsible for HRM and having a woman on the board corresponds to HRM being represented on the board. Additional exploratory analyses of country contexts indicate that this relationship is not universal. Considering several explanations for these country differences, we propose that institutional pressures promoting women's integration into boards is the main reason for the differences. Organisations yield to this pressure and reduce the anticipated performance risks by appointing women with function‐specific experience to board positions responsible for HRM - a function perceived as matching women's stereotypically assumed talents.... view less
Keywords
female profession; Austria; Sweden; image of women; regression analysis; business management; Federal Republic of Germany; management; board of directors; gender; ISSP; France; proportion of women; occupational image; EVS; stereotype; woman; Eurobarometer; Spain; affirmative action; human resource management; recruitment
Classification
Human Resources Management
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
executive board recruitment; human resource manager; institutional pressure; women on boards; European Values Study (EVS) 2008 (ZA4800); International Social Survey Programme: Family and Changing Gender Roles IV - ISSP 2012 (ZA5900 Data file Version 4.0.0); Special Eurobarometer 376 (Wave EB76.1)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 586-603
Journal
Human Resource Management Journal, 30 (2020) 4
Issue topic
Situating Human Resource Management Practices in their Political and Economic Context
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12263
ISSN
1748-8583
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed