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Business Professors Co-Author Management Article

Two professors of management at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Bahaudin G. Mujtaba, D.B.A., and Randi L. Sims, Ph.D., recently co-authored an article titled “Gender Differences in Managerial Attitudes towards Unearned Privilege and Favoritism in the Retail Sector.” The article was published in the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal.

The article describes the concepts of unearned privilege and favoritism, and tested for differences in managerial attitudes towards the use of these behaviors based on respondent gender. Respondents included 180 managers employed with a large retail organization located in the southern part of the United States.

The results indicate that female managers more strongly disapproved of the use of unearned privilege in making promotion decisions and more strongly disapproved of the decision to use favoritism in decision making related to customer relations. The results also indicated that male managers were less likely to disapprove of the use of unearned privilege when they had greater years of management experience. In addition, the most experienced female managers reported disapproval levels for the use of favoritism in decision making related to customer relations equal to that of the most experienced male managers.