Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Some Successful Corporate Practices

This article describes "Project Breakthrough: A Survey of Corporate Practices for Shattering the Glass Ceiling." Evidence is presented that the "glass ceiling" remains intact in many areas. A list of barriers (social sterotypes) that support the glass ceiling are presented. Some corporate strategies found in the literature are also presented. Sixty-nine companies in the Houston area were surveyed. A summary score based on responses to thirty-four practices listed in the survey were computed. The top twelve organizations were identified as "distinguished," and site visits were conducted. The practices of these companies are listed.     

The Expatriate Glass Ceiling: The Second Layer of Glass

The corporate glass ceiling continues to be a challenge for many organizations. However, women executives may be facing a second pane of obstruction – an expatriate glass ceiling – that prevents them from receiving the foreign management assignments and experience that is becoming increasing critical for promotion to upper management. The responsibility to break the expatriate glass ceiling lies with both female managers and the multinational corporations that utilize expatriates. In this paper, we propose pre-assignment, on-assignment, and post-assignment strategies for breaking the expatriate glass ceiling.     

Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Nigeria: A Review of Women's Entrepreneurship

The relevance of the age-long conundrum known as the glass ceiling has become ever more questionable for a number of compelling reasons. First, its root in the invisible barriers (push factors) facing women's career progression prospects in the corporate world is ever-changing at a rapid pace across every region of the globe. Second, research shows some evidence of a major dramatic increase in women-owned businesses as being attributable to women's desire to gain more flexibility in their work arrangements (pull factors). By providing a catalogue of pull factors in the context of African (especially Nigerian) women entrepreneurs, this paper argues that the glass ceiling problem may have well been shattered in numerous spheres, and thus become less tenable as a gender-specific reality in the twenty-first century.     

Discrimination, Harassment, and the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives as Change Agents

In this article, we discuss the relationships between discrimination, harassment, and the glass ceiling, arguing that many of the factors that preclude women from occupying executive and managerial positions also foster sexual harassment. We suggest that measures designed to increase numbers of women in higher level positions will reduce sexual harassment. We first define and discuss discrimination, harassment, and the glass ceiling, relationships between each, and relevant legislation. We next discuss the relationships between gender and sexual harassment, emphasizing the influence of gender inequality on sexual harassment. We then present recommendations for organizations seeking to reduce sexual harassment, emphasizing the role that women executives may play in such efforts and, importantly, the recursive effects of such efforts on increasing the numbers of women in higher level positions in organizations.     

The Ultimate Glass Ceiling Revisited: The Presence of Women on Corporate Boards

Has the diversity of corporate boards of directors improved? Should it? What role does diversity play in reducing corporate wrongdoing? Will diversity result in a more focused board of directors or more board autonomy? Examining the state of Tennessee as a case study, the authors collected data on the board composition of publicly traded corporations and compared those data to an original study conducted in 1995. Data indicate only a modest improvement in board diversity. This article discusses reasons for the scarcity of women on boards and concludes that, to enhance strategic decisions, board membership should reflect the corporation's consumer population. Thus, women are a critical but overlooked resource. Areas for future research are also considered.     

曹晖 玻璃帝国的少帅

被誉为中国最慷慨的慈善家、世界"玻璃大王"的曹德旺在经历了"去家族化"的传承波折后,郑重宣布把企业交给长子。他认为,把福耀玻璃交给长子曹晖,曹家是最大的牺牲者……去年4月,在央视赈灾晚会上,福耀集团董事长曹德旺和集团总裁曹晖父子二人,以个人名义为玉树捐款1亿元。至此,福耀家族企业为中国慈善事业捐款已达45.8亿元。曹晖——这位低调的汽车玻璃王国的少帅,终于以首善的姿态出现在公众视野。而子承父业的故事,对他来说,才刚刚开始……     

广西佛子玻璃有限责任公司

<正>广西佛子玻璃有限责任公司位于山水梧州古郡苍梧,洛湛铁路在这里交汇,高速公路四通八达,衔八桂邻粤港,辐射东盟。公司在“黄金水道”珠江建有大型码头和仓储设施, 物流方便快捷,独具地利优势。佛玻人以开拓创新,与时俱进,永不满足的胸襟,抢抓机遇,顺应天时,创建了广西壮族自治区最大的现代化玻璃深加工厂,公司拥有世界领先技术的大型纯平无斑钢化生产线;意大利进口全自动切割生产线;国内最先进的全PLC控制夹层玻璃生产线;全自动数控中空玻璃生产线和门窗生产线。玻璃年生产能力120万平方米, 门窗年生产能力10万平方米。     

广西佛子玻璃有限责任公司

广西佛子玻璃有限责任公司位于山水梧州古郡苍梧,洛湛铁路在这里交汇,高速公路四通八达,衔八桂邻粤港,辐射东盟。公司在“黄金水道”珠江建有大型码头和仓储设施,物流方便快捷,独具地利优势。佛玻人以开拓创新,与时俱进,永不满足的胸襟,抢抓机遇,顺应天时,创建了广西壮族自治区     

Environmental Reporting Through an Ethical Looking Glass

This paper adopts the lens of environmental ethics to explore whether there is a disparity between the ethical approaches of a company in comparison to those expressed by stakeholders in relation to environmental issues, specifically those communicated through the corporate environmental report. Discourse analysis is adopted to explore the environmental section of the sustainability reports of the case study company as compared to the responses of a sample of the company’s stakeholders, using the lens of three branches of environmental ethics: utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics. Results indicate that the ethical approaches expressed in the case study company’s environmental reports were grounded in utilitarianism and deontology, in contrast to a virtue ethics approach expressed by external stakeholders. The disparity widened as the relationship between the company and the stakeholder became less direct. This disparity signals a failure to meet one of the primary purposes for preparing sustainability reports: to engage with stakeholders. As such this research contributes to the literature by identifying a disparity in the how this information is communicated compared with how it is perceived by stakeholders. This has important implications for the success of current stakeholder engagement practices.     

Beraus Neman Cystal Glass Factory Promotion Meeting

On March 13th, Beraus Neman Cystal Glass Factory held an promotion in the embassy of Beratls.     

Glass Houses? Market Reactions to Firms Joining the UN Global Compact

We examine market reactions to publicly held multinational firms announcing their affiliation with the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). The UNGC is a voluntary initiative to support four areas of United Nations viz. Human Rights, Labor, Environmental, and Anti-Corruption. Because firms must file annual Communication on Progress (COP) reports toward these initiatives, we argue this creates a differentiating transparency of interest to stakeholders. Using a sample of 175 global firms, we find support to the theory for joining the UNGC. Returns differ markedly, however, between multinational firms headquartered in the United States (negative) and Europe (positive). We also find that failing to complete the annual COP generates a negative market reaction.     

信义玻璃走向国际蓝海

2010年5月1日,世博会开幕,世界把目光投向了上海,投向了世博园,而世博园中最引人注目的要数炫红的中国国家馆。中国馆外立面的7000多块红色铝板和1200多块玻璃相互映衬,充分展现了“东方之冠”的雄伟身姿。而体现中国馆传统与现代、节能与环保理念的玻璃就来自信义集团（以下简称信义）。     

出口玻璃食品接触材料风险分析

根据世界各国对玻璃食品接触材料卫生要求和2000-2010年欧盟食品与饲料快速预警系统对我国出口的玻璃类食品接触材料的通报情况,分析我国出口玻璃类食品接触材料的风险和通报原因,提出相关的应对措施和检验监管建议。     

Through the Ethics Looking Glass: Another View of the World of Auditors and Ethics

Most people are familiar with the traditional view of the role of ethics in the auditing profession – the need for auditors with integrity and objectivity. This essay addresses a second dimension of ethics in the auditing profession – the demand for auditors to assess the integrity and ethical values of clients. This second dimension is a difficult task for auditors in practice and demands a deep and robust understanding of ethics, ethical infrastructures, and the products of those infrastructures. The essay proposes how educators and researchers might facilitate that understanding.