ABSTRACT
This chapter examines some of the major issues surrounding women senior managers in Romanian organisations. It articulates and empirically investigates the relationship between Romanian women senior managers' age, work experiences, categories of managerial skills and their effectiveness at work. The chapter suggests that one of the most important factors of managerial effectiveness is the managerial skills and knowledge of the managers. The managerial skills have been conceptualised in terms of basic observable inter-related categories that are termed; task, people-related and self and career development sets. J. Child proposed that older senior managers are more committed to the status quo than are younger senior managers. Age is highly correlated with total work experience, organisational tenure and industry tenure. A senior manager who has one type of formal education can be expected to have developed different problem solving skills and mental models with which to evaluate situations than a senior manager with a different type of formal education.
