Elena Doldor BSc, MSc
Elena joined the Centre in 2006 as a full-time PhD student. She holds a BSc in Psychology from Babes-Bolyai University (Romania) and an MSc in Organizational Psychology from Pierre Mendes University (France). After completing an MRes degree at Cranfield, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and spent one year in the US, working with Professor Alice Eagly in Northwestern University. Her current doctoral research focuses on gender aspects of organizational politics, particularly on managerial attitudes toward organizational politics. Broader scholarly interests include diversity management, power and social influence in organizations and leadership. Elena is a member of the American Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management.
Prior to starting her PhD, Elena’s research addressed cross-cultural differences in gender stereotypes and women’s career obstacles in male-dominated working environments. She has a special interest for diversity management within corporations, and has advised a European research institute on ways of managing women’s careers in male-typed jobs. You may contact Elena at: elena.doldor@cranfield.ac.uk
Conference papers
2009 “Managerial Attitudes toward Organizational Politics”. British Academy of Management, Brighton, UK
2008. “The Challenge of Organizational Politics: Bridging the Gap across Theoretical Domains” (with Singh, V.). American Academy of Management Conference, Anaheim, CA, USA
2007. “Individual meanings and attitudes towards political behaviors amongst female managers: An exploratory study”. European Doctoral Research Conference, London, UK
2007. “Being political, being (in)visible: women’s political behaviours in organizations and the masculine construal of corporate power” (with Singh, V.). 5th Interdisciplinary Conference of Gender, Work and Organization, Keele, UK
2006. “The cross-cultural validation of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory in France and Romania”. 6th International Congress of Social Psychology in the Francophone World, Grenoble, France