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How Signaling Motives Send Women Managers Towards the “Glass Cliff” - Ideas for Leaders

How Signaling Motives Send Women Managers Towards the “Glass Cliff”

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How Signaling Motives Send Women Managers Towards the “Glass Cliff”

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KEY CONCEPT

Companies in crisis often appoint female executives to send a signal to investors and observers that they are ready to make substantial changes. Such signaling appointments set up women to fail, creating a ‘glass cliff’ effect that further undermines attempts to overturn male-dominated leadership in business.


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Idea conceived

March 31, 2021

Idea posted

May 2022
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