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Herman Aguinis
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Breaking Barriers: Understanding the Gender Gap in Star Performance
Deed Dive podcast: Breaking Barriers: Understanding the Gender Gap in Star Performance
Key Takeaways:
1️⃣ Gender Bias in Stardom Prototypes
The notion of "Think Star, Think Men" creates implicit biases, making it harder for women to be recognized as star performers. These prototypes are deeply embedded in organizational cultures and perpetuate gender inequity.
2️⃣ Insulation Cycles Hinder Female Advancement
Performance barriers-like limited mentoring and reduced access to high-potential tasks-compound over time for women. These "insulation cycles" often prevent women from achieving star status, despite their capabilities.
3️⃣ Impact of Caregiving and Time Constraints
Women face disproportionate caregiving responsibilities, which reduce their ability to engage in time-intensive development activities. Both objective and perceived time conflicts impact their career trajectories.
4️⃣ Strategic Diversity Goals Mitigate Barriers
Organizations with explicit diversity strategies can help level the playing field for female star contenders. Countering systemic biases, such goals provide critical support in the initial stages of star emergence.
5️⃣ Influential Sponsorship Matters
In later stages, access to powerful sponsors can significantly reduce gender-based disadvantages. Sponsors are key in promoting fairness, reducing interpersonal biases, and advocating for female talent.
This research underscores the importance of rethinking organizational structures to create equitable opportunities for all star contenders.
Get article: Bear, J. B., Treviño, L. J., & Aguinis, H. 2025. A star is born or not: Understanding the star emergence gender gap. Journal of Organizational Behavior. doi.org/10.1002/job.2858
Key Takeaways:
1️⃣ Gender Bias in Stardom Prototypes
The notion of "Think Star, Think Men" creates implicit biases, making it harder for women to be recognized as star performers. These prototypes are deeply embedded in organizational cultures and perpetuate gender inequity.
2️⃣ Insulation Cycles Hinder Female Advancement
Performance barriers-like limited mentoring and reduced access to high-potential tasks-compound over time for women. These "insulation cycles" often prevent women from achieving star status, despite their capabilities.
3️⃣ Impact of Caregiving and Time Constraints
Women face disproportionate caregiving responsibilities, which reduce their ability to engage in time-intensive development activities. Both objective and perceived time conflicts impact their career trajectories.
4️⃣ Strategic Diversity Goals Mitigate Barriers
Organizations with explicit diversity strategies can help level the playing field for female star contenders. Countering systemic biases, such goals provide critical support in the initial stages of star emergence.
5️⃣ Influential Sponsorship Matters
In later stages, access to powerful sponsors can significantly reduce gender-based disadvantages. Sponsors are key in promoting fairness, reducing interpersonal biases, and advocating for female talent.
This research underscores the importance of rethinking organizational structures to create equitable opportunities for all star contenders.
Get article: Bear, J. B., Treviño, L. J., & Aguinis, H. 2025. A star is born or not: Understanding the star emergence gender gap. Journal of Organizational Behavior. doi.org/10.1002/job.2858
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Amazing interview, Professor! I loved it. Let’s falsify our wrong practices by applying our own tools.
This is very useful for me because I am an early researcher in the management field. Thank you Dr.Aguinis for your insights on control variables.
You are most welcome, Zuhair! The following site includes articles that you may find useful: www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html
Great work 👍
Conversation between researchers and practitioners: a great attitude for HR researches in the century
Dear professors, this is a timely important discussion that we have been searching for years.
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Muy buena disertación Herman!
As long as performance management is used to judge people, it won't work.
Thank you, Jenny! Good performance management systems help people IMPROVE their performance. See: www.amazon.com/gp/product/1119557658
Thanks Herman and Jing for taking the time to make this succinct video about your paper. Not only does it serve as an effective executive summary of the study's core points, which gives audience appetite to go and read your paper but you also show how academics can communicate research findings to practitioners in a brief and broadly accessible fashion.
You are most welcome, Jacob! I am delighted you found it useful.
Good morning from Macau SAR, Professor Herman nice intro! It looks so exciting!
Thank you, Jose!
Excellent conference, Herman. Despite the impossibility of the face-to-face format, the conference managed to unite the community and promote much needed discussions. The sessions have been enriching. I thank everyone who made the event possible! Glessia Silva Phd, AOM member from Brazil.
Thank you for the excellent feedback, Glessia! I am delighted to hear you are enjoying the conference.
Great conference . This is a superb prep under these circumstances.Great people. Great company.Cooperating globally towards solutions to the present and coming challenges in management sciences ,society and beyond. Peter Odrakiewicz Phd, AOM member from Poland
Thank you, Peter! Indeed, this is a fabulous TEAM effort. Thank you for your participation and engagement.
Great intro Herman. Thank you. Peter AOM member from Poznan Poland
Thank you, Peter! I hope you are enjoying the conference.
Thanks Dr. Aguinis for such an inspiring piece of work!
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Very insightful. Thanks for sharing.
You are most welcome, Mehran! The following site includes articles that you may find useful: www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html
Thank you so much, Professor for the explanation about theory.
great
Dear Professor Herman, this is the right channel and hope in the future to have more of these conversations underlying the publication of your and your co-authors views as editors. Congratulations!
Thank you, Jose!
I just turned the "comments" feature on. Feel free to include any reactions you may have!
herman - this idea of making a visual to go along with a paper is absolutely brilliant! thanks for always being one of the best thinkers in the field! - john
Thank you for your very kind words!
@@hermanaguinis1070 the greatest of danes!
This article is available at www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html Aguinis, H., & Glavas, A. 2019. On corporate social responsibility, sensemaking, and the search for meaningfulness through work. Journal of Management, 45: 1057-1086.
Is there a way to get a full package of your publications?
Yes, they are available at www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html
Also, see www.hermanaguinis.com for additional information (books, etc)
@@hermanaguinis1070 Thank you very much prof. Best of luck in your future endeavors.
Yes, they are available at www.hermanaguinis.com/pubs.html