Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture: Challenging Tradition, Choosing Empowerment, Creating Change

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Routledge, Mar 15, 2012 - Business & Economics - 152 pages

The typical view of Korean women is not as managers. The stereotype is of Korean women serving and pleasing men, or more recently as aggressive shopkeepers and bar-owners. Very little has been written to challenge this misconception. This fascinating book reveals there have always been managers amongst Korean women, particularly in occupations like money lending, retail and fashion, and women continue to serve after the economic crash at the beginning of a new century. Korean Women Managers and Corporate Culture illuminates the many roles of women - from management, leadership and policy making, to the more traditional positions as homemaker and wife – and describes the distinctive Korean corporate culture and economy in order to evaluate the future of women as well as that of Korea itself.

 

Contents

Introduction
The world of Korean women today
The many faces of Korean women managers
History as precursor
Women managers stories
girls lives in Korea
Corporate culture in Korea
Korean women and Korean organizational culture
Success for Korean women managers
renewing the golden thread
Select bibliography
Index
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Jean R. Renshaw is a principal in the consulting firm AJR International Associates, based in the USA, and a Professor of Management and Organizational Behavior. Previous publications include Kimono in the Boardroom: The Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers.

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