This book tells a story about men and women in management in Australia that has not yet been told. Its material has been drawn from a research project which commenced in 1996 and spanned ten years.

One of the key areas of the early research explored the aspirations of those who wished to continue on to a senior management role in their careers, their confidence level that this would be achieved, and their realistic expectations about the probable time frame it would take to achieve their aspirations.

Subsequently, two further stages of the research followed up a small group of managers who had participated in the original study. This allowed these managers to be “tracked” in terms of the outcome of their promotion aspirations, their views on why they were successful in achieving a senior management promotion and the strategies they employed, or alternatively, their views on the barriers that impeded them in achieving a senior management promotion.

In addition, the perceptions, experiences, and reflections of those who were successful or unsuccessful in achieving promotion are explored across ten years of management and organisational practices in Australian organisations
 

Dr Glenice Wood is a Senior Lecturer and Acting Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) in Management in the School of Business, University of Ballarat, Victoria.

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
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Glenice J. Wood

Sixteen Australian Managers Ten Years On: Rhetoric and Realities

   Bibliography

      ISBN 978-1-920889-26-5 (paper back)

      ISBN 978-1-920889-27-2 (hard cover)

          1. Business Enterprises, Australia.

          2. Longitudinal Studies.

          3. Business People, Australia, Interviews.

658.40994

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