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- January – February 2011
- Article
Stop Holding Yourself Back
By: Anne Morriss, Robin J. Ely and Frances X. Frei
After working with hundreds of leaders in a wide variety of organizations and in countries all over the globe, the authors found one very clear pattern: when it comes to meeting their leadership potential, many people unintentionally get in their own way. Five barriers... View Details
- 2010
- Article
An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms
By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson
This case study of two offshore oil platforms illustrates how an organizational initiative designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges
By: Robin J. Ely and Deborah L. Rhode
We use the experience of Carly Fiorina as an introduction to the continued challenges faced by women in top leadership roles. Although Fiorina, on becoming CEO of Hewlett Packard in 1999, asserted that "there is not a glass ceiling," her memoir eight years later... View Details
- October 2009 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture
By: Frances X. Frei, Robin J. Ely and Laura Winig
On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its board of directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
- 2008
- Chapter
Shifting Frames in Team-Diversity Research: From Difference to Relationships
By: R. Ely and L. Morgan Roberts
- 1 Jun 2008
- Keynote Speech
Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity
By: R. Ely
- 24 May 2008 - 25 May 2008
- Keynote Speech
Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity
By: R. Ely
- 2 May 2008 - 3 May 2008
- Keynote Speech
Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity
By: R. Ely
- 18 Oct 2007 - 19 Oct 2007
- Keynote Speech
Future Work on Diversity and Equal Opportunities: Experiences from the U.S.
By: R. Ely
- October 2007
- Article
A Feminist Analysis of Organizational Research on Sex Differences
By: Robin Ely and Irene Padavic
- 1 Oct 2007
- Keynote Speech
Racial Diversity and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Team Performance
By: R. Ely
- 2007
- Chapter
Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership
By: D. E. Meyerson, R. Ely and Laura Wernick
In this chapter, we present a case study of men on two off-shore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally rewarded men for their masculine displays of bravado and their interactions centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were... View Details
- 1 Aug 2007
- Conference Presentation
Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Masculine Identity
By: R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson
- 2007
- Working Paper
Unmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity
By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson
- 1 Oct 2006
- Keynote Speech
Shifting Paradigms in Diversity Research: From Difference to a Relational Framing
By: R. Ely
- September 2006
- Article
Rethinking Political Correctness
By: Robin J. Ely, Debra E. Meyerson and Martin N. Davidson
Keywords: Attitudes