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Ardts, Joost C. A.; van der Velde, Mandy E. G.; Maurer, Todd J. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2010
Employees' perceptions of Management Development (MD) programs is the topic of this study. The purpose is to examine the influence of three important perceived characteristics of MD programs on relevant MD outcomes. The MD characteristics are: availability of role models, perceived control, and understanding the MD program. Outcomes are:…
Descriptors: Management Development, Outcomes of Education, Program Attitudes, Employee Attitudes
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Roest, Annette M. C.; Dubas, Judith Semon; Gerris, Jan R. M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
This study applied the gender role model of socialization theory, the developmental aging theory, and the topic salience perspective to the investigation of parent-child value transmissions. Specifically, we examined whether the bi-directionality and selectivity of value transmissions differed as a function of parents' and children's gender and…
Descriptors: Socialization, Role Models, Structural Equation Models, Sex Role
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Driessen, Geert – International Review of Education, 2007
Since the mid-1990s, considerable concern has been expressed about the feminization of education. The underlying assumption is that the increasing number of female teachers is leading to a lack of male role models, which may then have negative consequences for the achievement and behaviour of boys in particular. For this reason, policy is…
Descriptors: Role Models, Elementary Education, Gender Differences, Males
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Rommes, Els; Faulkner, Wendy; Van Slooten, Irma – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2005
Women-only vocational courses in technology, which became popular across Western Europe during the 1980s, had fallen from fashion by 2000. Yet the need for such courses remains, at least in certain circumstances. Drawing on case studies of two women-only courses in information and communications technology (ICT), from the Netherlands and Scotland,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Case Studies, Single Sex Classes