The evolution of empathy and women’s precarious leadership appointments

Glass cliffs describe situations in which women are promoted to executive roles in declining organizations. To explain them, some authors suggest that people tend to think crisis-think female. However, the root cause of this association remains elusive. Using several subfields of evolutionary theory...

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Main Authors: John G. Vongas, Raghid eAl Hajj
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01751/full