CENTRE FOR GRADUATE STUDIES: Management in Organizations

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of International Studies of Management & Organization (ISMO), the Founding Editor, Jean J. Boddewyn, the past Editor-in-Chief, Moshe Banai, and the current Editor-in-Chief, Abraham Stefanidis, compile this issue that describes the journal's half-a-century journey. In this article, we present ISMO's evolution from a platform that included translations of non-US-published articles in the 1970s to an internationally renowned journal that represents a truly universal scholarship of management and organization research.

An atypical leader is often celebrated as an individual who is likely to support workforce diversity in organizations. Yet the verity of the assumption that an atypical leader will invariably promote workforce diversity remains underexplored. In this paper, we question this assumption and demonstrate the dualities of an atypical leader in legitimizing and delegitimizing workforce diversity. We define and examine the concept of atypicality among leaders, in terms of how they emerge, who they are (dispositions), what they say (discourses) and what they do (performative acts). We introduce a conceptual framework that maps out the emergence and constitution of an atypical leader, as well as their impact on diversity management within an organization. Our analysis incorporates the concept of habitus (class‐specific and reflexive

Environmental organizations actively take part in the proposition of strategies, studies and environmental practices that aim at reducing the environmental degradation of the planet. These organizations have conceptions and commitments that guide their actions. The objective of the research that led to this article was to understand the environmental conceptions and the ideological commitments that guide the actions and the management of the environmental organizations.

This paper pays tribute to Joan Acker by discussing how her ideas have been utilized in Management and Organization Studies (MOS). Through a systematic review of journal articles citing Acker's scholarship from 2000 to 2017 (September), we show how recent scholarship has used Acker to advance discussions in the field and examine how her work was received, and which promises made by her work are still to be met. We identify avenues to carry her legacy forward with a view to realizing the transformative goal she posed as central to meaningful change in social, political and economic life through scholarship in the field of gender and organizations

The objective of this study was to analyze the perception of women in managerial work according to pharmaceutical industry managers based in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro operating in the region of Minas Gerais. This is a field study with a qualitative and descriptive approach. A semi-structured interview script was used to collect data, and the subjects of this survey were ten district managers. The results show that the management of people is punctuated as the main activity developed in the exercise of the function. No salary differences were found between men and women in the pharmaceutical companies surveyed. The clothing, that is, the care with the visual, as well as the understanding, sensitivity and care with the people were pointed out as a way to feel feminine in the managerial career. The managerial function was described as unisex and / or asexual and the way of managing is associated to the profile of each one. The availability for trips to the service was pointed out as an ideal activity for the men, but that does not prevent them from exercising the managerial function.

Talent Management factors such as training, career development, performance management, and rewards and recognition continue being essential for ensuring organizational commitment and reducing employee turnover.

Internal communications are a powerful channel for internal stakeholders in business (Dawkins, 2005). Internal stakeholders consist of employees, management, and investors.