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      Through a Glass Cliff Darkly : Evidence That the Media Visibility of Companies Moderates Their Willingness to Appoint Women to Leadership Positions in Times of Crisis

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          Abstract. After breaking through the glass ceiling, women often obtain precarious or risky leadership positions in crisis-ridden organizations ( the glass cliff ; Ryan & Haslam, 2005 ). Due to women’s minority status, their appointment in a crisis can signal important changes to organizational stakeholders indicating the use of new strategies for overcoming the crisis (signaling theory; Spence, 1973). Our study examines whether the media visibility of organizations moderates these signaling effects in ways that either strengthen or weaken glass cliffs. We augmented the archival dataset used by Haslam et al. (2010) in which the glass cliff phenomenon was discovered by including data on the media coverage that the Financial Times Stock Exchange index 100 companies received between 2001 and 2005. Our analysis shows that glass cliffs were more pronounced in companies with low media visibility. This suggests that the media visibility of organizations can contribute to increased accountability regarding their personnel decisions in ways that expose women leaders to less discrimination.

          Auf der Gläsernen K‍(l)‌ippe. Die Medienpräsenz von Unternehmen moderiert die Bereitschaft zur Besetzung von unsicheren Führungspositionen mit Frauen

          Zusammenfassung. Nachdem sie die gläserne Decke durchbrechen, erreichen Frauen oft unsichere und riskante Führungspositionen in krisengeschüttelten Organisationen ( gläserne Klippe oder Glass Cliffs; Ryan & Haslam, 2005). Nach der Signaltheorie (Signaling Theory; Spence, 1973 ) kann die Ernennung von Frauen in Krisenzeiten aufgrund ihrer Seltenheit Stakeholdern grundlegende Veränderungen bezüglich kritischer Probleme ankündigen. Wir untersuchen die Möglickeit, dass die mediale Sichtbarkeit von Organisationen Glass Cliffs moderiert – also verstärkt oder abschwächt. Können medial sichtbare Unternehmen wirksamere Signale senden oder stehen sie stärker unter Beobachtung? Hierfür wurde der Archivdatensatz von Haslam et al. (2010) um die Medienberichterstattung erweitert, die FTSE100-Unternehmen zwischen den Jahren 2001 und 2005 erhielten. Unsere Analyse zeigt, dass Glass Cliffs bei Unternehmen mit geringer medialer Sichtbarkeit stärker ausgeprägt waren. Dieser Befund zeigt, dass die medialer Sichtbarkeit von Organisationen zu einer höheren Verantwortlichkeit bei Personalentscheidungen beitragen kann, so dass weibliche Führungskräfte weniger diskriminiert werden.

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                zao
                Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O
                Hogrefe Verlag, Göttingen
                0932-4089
                2190-6270
                29 November 2022
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ]Institute of Work, Organizational and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany
                [ 2 ]School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia
                [ 3 ]EBS Business School, EBS University, Wiesbaden, Germany
                Author notes
                Prof. Dr. Jürgen Wegge, Institute of Work, Organizational and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany, juergen.wegge@ 123456tu-dresden.de
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-5167
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2716-9397
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-5120
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                zao_a000406_-1_1
                10.1026/0932-4089/a000406
                c4866046-4e00-49a0-b074-793305ec17b3
                Distributed as a Hogrefe OpenMind article under the license CC BY-ND 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)

                Distributed as a Hogrefe OpenMind article under the license CC BY-ND 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0)

                History
                : August 3, 2021
                : August 26, 2022
                Funding
                Funding: This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Grant WE 1504/23 – 1. Open access publication enabled by SLUB Dresden.
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                Psychology
                Gläserne Klippe,Sichtbarkeit,Signal der Veränderung,glass cliff,leadership in crisis,visibility,ingroup favoritism,signaling change,Führung in Krisen

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