In 1979, Rosemary Pledger became the first female President of the Academy of Management (AOM). AOM, through scholarship and teaching about management and organizations, is well known for its contributions to the development of modern management theory. The purpose of this paper is to understand and analyze the human and social influencers which enabled Pledger’s career success. She climbed to the top of her profession and became a role model for other professional women, especially in the academic field; she successfully cracked the glass ceiling.,The authors used a qualitative methodology as most appropriate to examine the research question of how Pledger used human and social skills to overcome barriers to career success. In addition to her biographical data, the authors analyzed 1,593 pages of documents from the AOM Archives at the Khell Center, Martin P. Catherwood Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.,Pledger succeeded because she developed strong human and social capital critical for career success and career mobility. Becoming part of the top management team in three organizations – the AOM, the Southwestern AOM and the University of Houston – Clear Lake City is evidence of her skill in using her capital to crack the glass ceiling.,The limitation of author interpretation of secondary data is recognized.,This work illustrates the appropriateness of qualitative research, specifically, in placing important management figures in context, and it makes clear how human and social capital factors are critical to career success for women.,AOM’s contribution to the development of modern management theory is widely recognized; however, there is a lack of studies related to the career successes of AOM’s female leaders. This paper chronicles the career life of Rosemary Pledger who became the first female president of the AOM and a successful Dean and examines the factors that contributed to her career success despite the presence of a glass ceiling.

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人力和社会资本对女性职业的影响

1979 年，Rosemary Pledger 成为美国管理学会 (AOM) 的第一位女性主席。AOM 通过有关管理和组织的学术和教学，以其对现代管理理论发展的贡献而闻名。本文的目的是了解和分析促成 Pledger 职业成功的人和社会影响因素。她登上了职业的顶峰，成为其他职业女性的榜样，尤其是在学术领域；她成功打破了玻璃天花板。,作者使用最合适的定性方法来研究 Pledger 如何利用人类和社交技能克服职业成功障碍的研究问题。除了她的传记数据外，作者还分析了 1、来自纽约伊萨卡康奈尔大学 Martin P. Catherwood 图书馆 Khell 中心 AOM 档案馆的 593 页文件。Pledger 之所以成功，是因为她开发了对职业成功和职业流动至关重要的强大的人力和社会资本。成为 AOM、西南 AOM 和休斯顿大学 - 清湖城三个组织的高层管理团队的一员，证明了她利用自己的资本打破玻璃天花板的能力。,作者对二手数据解释的局限性得到认可。,这项工作说明了定性研究的适当性，特别是在将重要的管理人物置于背景中时，它清楚地表明人力和社会资本因素对女性的职业成功至关重要。，AOM对现代管理理论发展的贡献得到广泛认可；然而，缺乏与 AOM 女性领导者的职业成功相关的研究。本文记录了罗斯玛丽·普莱杰 (Rosemary Pledger) 的职业生涯，她成为 AOM 的第一位女总裁和成功的院长，并研究了尽管存在玻璃天花板，但仍有助于她职业成功的因素。