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Organizational Behaviors
The current study focuses on the relation that exists between passive and active representation that exists across organizations and analyzes how it is based on race as opposed to sex or gender. The reason behind the need for this study was that previous studies had not focused on the influences that contextual environment have on gender preferences that instigate active representation in the bureaucratic setup. The researchers create a theoretical framework that focuses on the factors that create passive representation trends in active representation for gender or sex and then the paper goes forward with testing this framework within the educational standards in Texas. The researchers concluded that passive representation of women within the domain of education resulted in active representation. They also concluded that the institutional framework has a direct and strong influence on the expansive nature of the relation between passive and active representation.
Research Question
There was a theoretical framework created in this study whereby the structures...
Furthermore, the study also tested if the aspect passive representation of women within the realm of education had an influence on the overall academic performance of the female students.
Theories
The primary theories tackled in this research included: the representative bureaucracy theory, the feminist theory of sex, gender and identification, the feminist theory of sex, gender and institutions as well as the notion of critical mass.
Hypothesis
The hypothesis for this study was based on the prospect of passive representation of women resulting in their active representation within the realm of education and the relevant consequences that this had on the public policies that were aiming t o increase the overall gender diversity rations in modern organizations. The hypothesis proposed that if there was a relation mid the factors of passive and active representation for gender, then gender diversity or its deficiency, resulted…
References
Keiser, L.R., Wilkins, V.M., Meier, K.J. And Holland, C.A. Lipstick and Logarithms: Gender, Institutional Context, and Representative Bureaucracy. American Political Science Review, Vol. 96, No. 3, September 2002
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