Forging both formal and informal networks at the member and staff levels is critical to being successful.
Use surveys and focus groups to learn, for example, whether women feel excluded from formal and informal networks.
Are they shut out of golf games and other informal networks that help men make crucial professional contacts?
Within every hierarchical organization, there are already informal networks creating innovative solutions at a faster rate then ever thought possible.
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Companies have to find ways to turn informal networks into recruiting tools.
They have access to formal and informal networks, mentors and sponsors.
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Haller-Jorden cites European corporate culture, perpetuation of gender-based stereotypes, exclusion of women from informal networks and a lack of role models as reasons behind the discrepancy.
As more academics earn degrees abroad and go back to posts in China, informal networks are created that help outsiders check on the quality of applicants.
Observe how others have gained access to the informal networks.
First, women have limited access to formal and informal networks.
Prepaid telephone cards and soft drinks, often distributed via informal networks, can be found in tiny stalls in the most remote corners of Africa, despite all the difficulties with transport.
But tracking the flow of money goes all around the world, goes through countries that have very tight bank secrecy laws, and a lot of it goes through informal networks, which leave no paper trails.
But you were extraordinarily skilled, and even then it sounds like you had to rely on informal networks rather than a formal set of processes for veterans in order for you to find a job that used all your skills.
Exclusion from powerful but informal networks.
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That made her part of the underground lending system, a general term that encompasses informal lending networks, private investors, loan sharks and others.
Organised crime in the Middle East, South Asia and the Chinese diaspora has long relied on informal money transfer networks.
However, the massive growth projected for these innovations so far takes place outside the formal banking sector, in informal, unregulated networks and outside of the banking system.
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Networks tend to be informal and based on personal relationships established and developed over time, whereas an alumni is more structured and usually coordinated by the business school itself.
In their current form, European corporate states tend to be more informal than their predecessors, drawing on mutually supporting networks of labor, industry and government leaders without the explicit structure of Mussolini's cartels or Roosevelt's code authorities.
These networks of relationships span companies, industry sectors and even countries, creating an informal web of contacts, knowledge and influence.
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