A Survey Analysis Of Free Trade Attitudes In Mexico: Implications For Global Strategic Investment Decisions

Transnational investment decision making depends on business receptivity and willingness to provide long-term guarantees of stability by the host country. One measure of such receptivity involves awareness related to free trade provisions. This article investigates Mexican support and resistance towards free trade in terms of demographic differences, perceived economic opportunities, connectedness to the U.S., and political attitudes about the Mexican and U.S. governments. Results indicate that the leading predictor for receptivity of foreign investment is the belief that free trade will lead to more job creation. This study also reveals endorsement from Mexicans who think free trade will bring access to higher quality goods and services to Mexico. Contrary to expectations, age and gender are not significant in this analysis

Managing Impressions Of Responsibility For Success Or Failure: Manager-Sex and Observer-Sex Effects

College students’ responses to fictitious managers’’ statements concerning responsibility for performance were investigated.  Male managers were seen as having greater control than females over productivity.  While it was generally best to credit others for success and blame oneself for failure, males (but not females) gave subordinate-crediting managers more favorable ratings than superior-creditors.  Males seemed to perceive superior-creditors as self-serving, while females were more apt to take statements at face value

An Investigation Of Gender Differences In Occupational Stress And General Well Being

This paper examines the relationship between gender, occupational stress, well-being and coping among a gender-balanced group of 302 untenured assistant professors.  The group perceived high levels of life stress and medium high levels of work stress.  As hypothesized, women expressed more life stress but, contrary to expectations, the work stress among women was only slightly higher than among men.  There were no gender differences in coping. Thus, in this occupational setting, women handled work stress just as well as their male counterparts