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Phyllis Tharenou

Phyllis Tharenou

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
40
Citations
10593
World Ranking
5223
National Ranking
374

Overview

Phyllis Tharenou is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and contributes to research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Education, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their recent publications include the 2020 paper titled Skilled Migrants Employed in Developed, Mature Economies: From Newcomers to Organizational Insiders published in the Journal of Management, and a 2024 article Dashed hopes or delayed met expectations? Skilled migrant women's qualification-matched employment featured in the Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research. These papers address topics such as international migration, employment dynamics of skilled migrants, and workforce integration across different economies.

Tharenou's frequent co-authorship includes collaboration with Carol T. Kulik.

They publish predominantly in venues including:

  • Journal of Management
  • Journal of Global Mobility The Home of Expatriate Management Research

The main topics explored in Tharenou's research encompass:

  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Socioeconomic Development in MENA
  • Higher Education and Employability
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics

The combination of these themes reflects an interdisciplinary approach, addressing how migration interacts with labor market outcomes, education systems, and organizational structures. The work also examines the specific challenges faced by skilled migrants and expatriates in developed economies, contributing to fields that intersect social sciences and economics.

Best Publications

  • Management Research Methods

    Phyllis Tharenou;Ross Donohue;Brian Cooper

  • How do you Make it to the Top? An Examination of Influences on Women's and Men's Managerial Advancement

    Phyllis Tharenou;Shane Latimer;Denise Conroy

  • A review and critique of research on training and organizational-level outcomes.

    Phyllis Tharenou;Alan M. Saks;Celia Moore

  • Women Board Directors: Characteristics of the Few

    Zena Burgess;Phyllis Tharenou

  • Will I Stay or Will I Go? Explaining Repatriation by Self-Initiated Expatriates

    Phyllis Tharenou;Natatsha Caulfield

  • THE RELATIONSHIP OF TRAINING MOTIVATION TO PARTICIPATION IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT.

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Going Up? Do Traits and Informal Social Processes Predict Advancing in Management?

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Employee self-esteem: A review of the literature

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Women’s Career Advancement The Relative Contribution of Human and Social Capital

    Isabel Metz;Phyllis Tharenou

  • Explanations of Managerial Career Advancement

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Disruptive decisions to leave home: Gender and family differences in expatriation choices

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Does Mentor Support Increase Women's Career Advancement More than Men's? The Differential Effects of Career and Psychosocial Support

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • A test of reciprocal causality for absenteeism

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • The initial development of receptivity to working abroad: Self-initiated international work opportunities in young graduate employees

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • What matters most? The relative role of mentoring and career capital in career success

    Romila Singh;Belle Rose Ragins;Phyllis Tharenou

  • Women’s Self-Initiated Expatriation as a Career Option and Its Ethical Issues

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Gender Differences in Advancing to the Top

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Men and Women Managers' Advancement: Personal or Situational Determinants?

    Phyllis Tharenou;Denise Conroy

  • Managerial career advancement

    Phyllis Tharenou

  • Is there a link between family structures and women's and men's managerial career advancement?

    Phyllis Tharenou

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Moss
Simon Moss Charles Darwin University
Belle Rose Ragins
Belle Rose Ragins University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Carol T. Kulik
Carol T. Kulik University of South Australia
Deborah J. Terry
Deborah J. Terry University of Queensland
Alan M. Saks
Alan M. Saks University of Toronto

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