A comparison of Gulf Arab and Western women's attitudes towards leadership in the workplace

This article discusses the results obtained from developing an instrument to measure differences in women’s attitudes towards leadership in Arab and Western societies. In this study, student subjects in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom were used as test subjects for the development of...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Beyrouti, Nouri (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Finlay, Jim (author), Neal, Mark (author)
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منشور في: 2004
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/7232
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http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/12898
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Neal, M., Finlay, J., & Beyrouti, N. (2004). A comparison of Gulf Arab and Western women's attitudes towards leadership in the workplace. Arab Journal of Administrative Sciences, 11(3), 12-27.
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