Guest speakers session || WS 2020/21 || Mag.a Rosmarie Zauner & Jorge Cabrita Msc. (online event)

November 17, 2020 (9:00)

Mag.a Rosmarie Zauner, worked as assistant (prae doc) at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna with a research focus on European Citizenship and Anti-Discrimination Law. In 2015, she started working at the Austrian Ombud for Equal Treatment (Gleichbehandlungsanwaltschaft). Being formally appointed as Gleichbehandlungsanwältin, she supports and gives legal advice to victims of discrimination at the workplace, and also in other areas such as the provision of goods and services, education and social protection. She studied law in Vienna and Copenhagen with a focus on human rights, and participated in the “European Master program on Human Rights and Democratization” in Venice.

Msc. Jorge Cabrita is a research manager in the Working Life unit at Eurofound. He is responsible for formulating, coordinating and managing European-wide research, and promoting the dissemination of findings in debates, conferences, seminars and workshops in the areas of working conditions and industrial relations. His main research areas of interest include working conditions and job quality, working time and work–life balance, workers’ health and well-being, and gender equality. He is currently leading research on the socio-economic impacts of the transition to a carbon neutral economy. Previously, he worked as a researcher at the Centre for Studies for Social Intervention and the Research Centre About the Portuguese Economy of the Lisbon School of Economics, in Portugal, and as a trainer and consultant in the areas of strategic management, organizational communication and team building. He holds a BSc in Economics and a MSc in Socio-Organizational Systems of Economic Activity from the Lisbon School of Economics.

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Guest speakers session || WS 2020/21 || Dr. Christy Glass & Dr. Ajay Bailey (online event)

November 18, 2020 (14:30)

Dr. Christy Glass joined Utah State University in 2005 after completing her PhD in Sociology at Yale University. Her research and teaching focus on gender and racial/ethnic inequalities in work organizations. Her current research analyzes the factors that shape the careers of women and minority professionals.

Prof. Glass has authored over 60 articles, chapters and essays. Her work has appeared in top journals in sociology and management including Social Forces, Work & Occupations, Gender & Society, Social Problems, Strategic Management Journal and Human Resource Management. Her work has also been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Public Radio, PBS, Forbes Magazine, Newsweek, CNBC, BBC, CNN and the Harvard Business Review.

Dr. Ajay Bailey is the  Chair in Social Urban Transitions at the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University. Prof. Bailey leads the research line Global Migration, Culture and Place working at the interface of anthropology, geography, demography and public health. He holds the prestigious Dr T. M. A. Pai Endowed Chair in Qualitative Methods at Manipal University, India. With his Chair, Dr Bailey co-ordinates the Transdisciplinary Center for Qualitative Methods – a joint initiative with Manipal University.

To develop this research line prof. Bailey has been awarded more than €1.5 million EUROS in grant funding by a number of organizations such as NWO/Dutch Organization for Scientific Research, Ubbo Emmius Foundation, Gratama Foundation, amongst others. As an anthropologist and a cultural demographer, Dr. Bailey has produced 30+ top peer-reviewed international publications; one highly cited monograph; and has supervised 9 PhD researchers.

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andrea.elizabeth.romo.perez@wu.ac.at

Elisabeth Kelan (University of Essex): Positions of Power – Men as Middle Managers Supporting and Resisting Gender Equality in Organisations
on Tuesday, May 26^th, 2020 from 4:30 –6:00 pm, virtual via MS Teams. 

The lecture is part of our Department Research Seminar series.

Abstract. Men are increasingly called upon to act as change agents for gender equality. This article explores how men as middle managers can use their positional power to include women. Drawing on job shadowing and discourse analysis, the article highlights four areas in which men can include women. Men’s attempts to include women through bonding can fail because men draw on sexualised notions to describe women. Men are able to include women by engaging in practices that disrupt the homogenous reproduction in organisations. If men engage in gender equality efforts, they are often met by simultaneous ridicule and praise. Men also often enjoy career benefits from engaging in gender equality efforts. The article suggests that without recognising their own power and privilege, it is difficult for men to challenge existing gender relations rather than reproducing them. The article contributes an understanding to scholarship and practice around the complexities in analysing and conceptualising how men engage in gender equality.

Speaker. Elisabeth Kelan, PhD, is a Professor of Leadership and Organisation, and Head of the Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management Group at Essex Business School, University of Essex. Her research focuses on women in leadership, men as change agents for gender equality, generations at work, and diversity, inclusion and belonging. Her new research explores the future of work, digitalisation, and gender (Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship [MRF-2019-069]). She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals such as the British Journal of Management, Human Relations, and Gender, Work and Organization. She is also the author of three books. Elisabeth Kelan held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and was the Dahlem International Network Professor for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She is an associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization and is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management, Management Learning, and Gender in Management. She edits the Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations book series. Her research is regularly featured in the media such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph and HR Magazine. She has won various practitioner and academic awards for her research such as the Academy of Management Gender and Diversity in Organizations Faculty Transnational Research Award 2016 and the award for the Most Influential Leadership Research by the Leadership Awards (2016). to joining the University of Essex, Elisabeth Kelan held appointments at London Business School, the London School of Economics and Political Science, King's College London, Cranfield School of Management and Zurich University. She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.