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Articles

Special Issue

Management is No Longer a Male Bastion: The Future Belongs to Women -- Pradip Sinha, Sadhu Ramkrishna

The present-day women have emerged as winners and have proved that they are better equipped to take on challenges.

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Contemporary Women Managers:Get the Best Out of them -- Shubhra P Gaur

The proportion of women managers is increasing because of several reasons. Organizations need to understand how today's woman is different from her predecessors.

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I Love My Stress!!!: Women Cope with Stress More Confidently than Men -- Parul Rishi

Women are better managers and can afford to love their stress with efficient coping mechanisms without harming their mind and body.

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Think Manager, Think Male: Challenges for Women Expatriates -- Nina Muncherji

Companies hesitate to send women managers abroad, but women can be successful expatriates like their male counterparts.

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Women Entrepreneurs: The Sweet Smell of Success -- Prof. Keith Johnson, Head of Business, Management and Marketing, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds.

Companies like Virgin Cosmetics and Virgin Jewellery see women enterpreneurs as the core workers. These enterpreneurs work for themselves and play an important role in developing and managing the companies.

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Women in Management: The Unrealized Assets -- SS Desai

IT Consultant and visiting faculty at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, SP Jain Institute of Management & Research and Narsi Monji Institute of Management Studies.

The style of management used by women is more suitable for organizations of the future. Organizations need to devise strategies to retain women.

Is "Women in Management" Still a Vulnerable Niche?: A Multidimensional study on Working Executives -- Saikat Banerjee

Women today have emerged as a highly effective workforce. Companies should leverage their potential to strengthen their competitive dynamics.

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Women Managers in Indian Organizations: Some Critical Issues -- Pradip Kumar Ray, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Attitudinal and organizational prejudices have been preventing deserving women managers to executive positions in many Indian organizations.

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Women in India Inc. Boards: Are the Numbers Fair? -- Prabina Rajib, Assistant Professor, Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.

Representation of women on corporate boards in India is very low. This may change in the future with many women joining the Indian workforce and moving up the ladder.

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Empowerment and Family Decision-making Capabilities of Indian Women: A Long Way to Go -- Mani K P

Even after empowerment through various measures, Indian women do not enjoy a significant position in house-hold decision-making processes.

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Women Managers: The New Face of India Inc. -- BV Kiran, Jitesh Nair

Organizations on the whole have become more women-friendly. They have created women-friendly policies and are trying to shatter the glass-ceiling.

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Women Managers in Knowledge Economy: The Indian Perspective -- SP Agarwal

Women are expected to share larger employment opportunities at management and senior corporate levels as we move to a knowledge-based economy in India, which requires less of physical inputs and more of intellectual capabilities.

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Surinamese Women in Managerial Positions in the Netherlands: Scaling New Heights -- Sunil Choenni, Chan ES Choenni

Surinamese women in the Netherlands are able to acquire a good understanding of the environment in which they have to function especially in managerial positions.

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Personnel Development in a Competitive Banking Environment: A European Case -- Christos Floros

Although there is a balance regarding the development of employees by gender (and distribution by educational level) in the banking environment, the same is not true in management positions.

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Mary Robinson's Irish Presidency: The Cause or Effect of Change? -- Sheila Killian

On December 3, 1990, Mary Robinson became the President of Ireland, the first woman to hold the office. Nothing could have been more unexpected, or run more counter to Ireland's image abroad as a conservative country, dominated by the Catholic Church.

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Interviews

Women Managers' Speak

Sulajja Firodia Motwani, Jt. Managing Director, Kinetic Engineering

She is also a Director of Kinetic Motor Company Limited and Kinetic Marketing Services Limited. She is responsible for the group's overall business strategy, sales and marketing, and business development activities.

Sulajja Motwani has received numerous awards for her achievements and has been invited to speak at a large number of forums. She was featured as a business "Face of the Millennium" by leading magazine India Today; and was voted among the top 25 business leaders of the next century in a poll of industrialists conducted by Fortune India. Sulajja was also awarded the Society Young Achiever's Award for Business for the year 2002 and won the 2003 award for excellence as a top woman CEO from the Institute of Marketing and Management. She has won the Young Super Achiever Award by Business Today for year 2003. Most notably, she was selected by the World Economic Forum as a "Global Leader of Tomorrow" in 2002.

Dame Anita Lucia Roddick: Founder, The Body Shop

I was born in Littlehampton in 1942. As the child of an Italian immigrant couple in an English seaside town, I was a natural outsider, and I was drawn to other outsiders and rebels. James Dean was my schoolgirl idol. I had a strong sense of moral outrage, which was awakened when I found a book about the Holocaust at the age of 10. I trained as a teacher, but an educational opportunity on a kibbutz in Israel eventually turned into an extended working trip around the world. Soon after I got back to England, my mother introduced me to a young Scotsman named Gordon Roddick. Our bond was instant. Together we opened first a restaurant, and then a hotel in Littlehampton. We married in 1970, me with a baby on my back and another in my belly.

Jayshree Sundar : Executive Director, Leo Burnett

Is a practicing advertising professional. She has had a long career at Lintas and is on the board of Leo Burnett since the last three years. She has done her MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. She has worked on many highly remembered campaigns like "There's a Little Bit of SAIL in Everybody's Life," and more recently the proclaimed "AAm AAdmi" campaign for the Congress party in 2004. Apart from this she has worked on advertisements for Cadbury's, Maruti, Gillette, Parker pens, Wills Sport, etc.

Debra M Amidon : Founder and CEO, Entovation International Ltd.

They were teachers who first inspired me to want to be an educator. All has now evolved as an architect of the Knowledge Economy; and this is some of my story.

Nandini Dias : National Media Director, Lodestar -- Pradip Sinha

You joined Lodestar Media back in the year 1994. It has come a long way since then. What major challenges did you face during the journey?

The role of media planning itself within advertising has come a long way in the last 10 years. Hence, along with the industry and sometimes ahead of the industry, Lodestar Media has evolved. When media houses started, they were only into media buying and implementation of the buy. Media strategizing was seen as part of the main advertising agency. Lodestar was also divided in a similar manner. As the emphasis was always on strategizing, no conscious effort was made to build Lodestar as a brand name. But in the last few years the structure of media houses has changed completely. They have become independent of their creative agencies. They provide full media services which include research, brand strategizing, media buying, and implementation across all media. Changing the perceptions and mindset of Lodestar with the existing clients, within the agency, and the industry has been one of the biggest challenges.

Obviously with a changed offering comes a change role. And this was at all levels. Media planners could no longer just excel in their skill sets, but had to learn to service the client; a function which was being performed by the account servicing person. Media heads had to become business leaders. For example, when media was a division of the advertising agency, the billing and collection function for ads released was not part of the media role. But after media houses became independent, the responsibility was transferred to the planners. Similarly, while it was a division we never had to see the profit and loss on each account. Now as business leader we obviously have to be aware.

Elaine Dundon : Founder, The Innovation Group

"Do you know anything about this or are you just paid to stand here and look pretty?" I looked at him with amazement. I wanted to blurt out, "I have an MBA! I have experience in finance and banking. I could probably run circles around you!", but my good manners held me back! Perhaps it was just an innocent and awkward comment. Perhaps he really meant it as a compliment. Perhaps no one had told him about the "women in management" movement!

Lynn de Souza : Director of Media Services and Healthcare at Lintas Group -- Pradip Sinha

A management graduate from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Lynn de Souza began her career in 1982, with a brief stint at Speer before spending five years at O&M planning and buying media for key brands like J&J, Asian Paints, Titan Watches and Unilever. She joined Trikaya Grey as Media Director in 1988. She left Trikaya Grey as Executive Vice-President in 1995 to join the Lintas Group, and started up and ran the country's first media buying agency - Initiative Media. In 1999, Lynn became the Director in charge of Integrated Marketing Communications for the Lintas Group. In March 2003, she resumed charge of Media as Director - Media Services for the Lintas Group, and oversees the following media divisions - Initiative Media, Insight, Interactions, Intellect, and Digital Initiatives.

Shukla Wassan : Executive Director, Legal and Company Secretary, Xerox India Limited.

The word leader stems from the word "leden" which implies "to show the way". The true measure of a successful leader is his ability to lead by example and `live' the brand values of his organization. I feel that a true leader is the one who motivates and inspires others to go in the right direction and he/she, along with everyone else, aims to achieve the organizational goals. The foremost among leadership attributes are values: Integrity, honesty, trust and personal responsibility in all relationships. Successful leaders have a firm belief in these values and they walk the talk by setting an example.

Veerle Behets : Managing Director, LeasePlan India Ltd. -- Pradip Sinha

You have been associated with LeasePlan and its business for so many years. What are the major changes you observed in this industry over the years?

I joined LeasePlan, Belgium, in 1988, where I led the organization's efforts in various key functions. Before coming to India, I took on the reins of LeasePlan Fleet Management as the Managing Director. I came to India in 1998, to set up LeasePlan's business of leasing and fleet management in India, its first foray into the Asian market.

Andrea Learned : President of Learned On Women and editor of the web log: www.learnedonwomen.com

People often comment on the interesting career and flexible lifestyle I've been able to build. My work as a writer, speaker and consultant with a specialty in marketing to women is wonderful, but I can't offer a formula by which I arrived at it. Instead, I'll lay out my path for you below:

Terri MacKinnon : CEO, FisherGirl Inc. -- Pradip Sinha

What prompted you to start "Fishergirl" after spending almost three decades in the travel industry?

When I met my husband, he was operating a moving company with a friend, He asked me to help him organize and run his office. I left the travel industry to help him, and take a breakaway from an industry that was very quickly crashing due to commissions being removed. We decided to go out on our own when they had a partnership dispute. We continued to work for the next five years together running our family-owned Office Moving Company. My family was in great torment over my sister and father both being diagnosed with cancer at the start of 2003, and both were going through extensive cancer treatment. This played very strongly with me becoming unfocused in our family business and totally burned out. I sought out a retreat and headed to our cottage for rest and relaxation.