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I've posted a few times over the years about a trip I made with my partner to Leipzig in East Germany back in 1984, and I confess that the now-defunct country retains a kind of fascination for me. My rather banal judgement then and now is that the country, though marked by annoying shortages and […]

PurposeTo address the research gap on East German women managers and to examine some of the experiences of post‐socialist East German women who entered management positions during 1990s. The discussion focuses on the nature of women's commitment to career and organisation.Design/methodology/approachThe study presented adopts a methodology based on a qualitative approach, the grounded theory approach as developed by Glaser. One‐to‐one, semi‐structured interviews were carried out in 2000 with 24 East German women managers and five human resource managers in eight companies located in Eastern Germany, headquartered in Western Germany.FindingsThe case of post‐socialist East German women managers shows that gender can in fact become secondary criterion in employing women managers. It was revealed that opportunities for advancement were greater for East German female managers than West German managers due to the existence of childcare and women's programmes. The support structures, however, are currently being dismantled and women's growth and development in management levels is uncertain. The data show that women managers have coped with transition very effectively and are highly committed to their organisation and their career. However, their high commitment needs to be understood in relative terms as it is strongly context‐related.Research limitations/implicationsConsidering the qualitative nature of this study research results should not be generalised, rather they serve as a base for future research.Practical implicationsParticularly, the identification of personnel strategies employed towards post‐socialist women managers and an insight into East German women's commitment could benefit HR practitioners.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the limited literature on women in management Hungary as well as literature on women in post‐socialism.

States as International persons — Continuity of States — Legal status of Germany after 1945 — Legal consequences of the division of Germany — Whether the German Democratic Republic a foreign country — Applicability of rules of private international law in both parts of Germany — Common German nationality — Public policy — Whether the same in both parts of Germany — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

Beschrieben wird die Einschätzung oppositioneller Intellektueller der DDR aus der Sicht der DDR (Oppositionelle sind Minderheit ohne nennenswerten Anhang), der BRD (Meinungen der Oppositionellen sind repräsentativ für eine Vielzahl von DDR-Bürgern) und die Selbsteinschätzung von Betroffenen (Sie werden in der DDR mehr beachtet als vergleichbare Gruppen im Westen. Ob sie als Sprachrohr einer großen Gruppe oder der Mehrheit fungieren, ist nicht sicher.) Der Autor untersucht, ob es thematische Übereinstimmungen zwischen Kritik in der öffentlichen Diskussion in der DDR und den Themen der Oppositionellen gibt. Er sieht diese z.B. bei Bahro in den Themen Arbeitsmotivation, stärkere Beteiligung von Fachspezialisten an der Betriebsführung, bei Havemann und Heym im Thema der Friedensbewegung. Abschließend wird die Kritik des SED-Staates am Individualismus, fehlender Zustimmung zum Sozialismus, am Mangel an sozialem Engagement bei den jüngeren Schriftstellern der DDR dargestellt. (BIOst-Wtk)

Reflecting on guiding principles and content, history and practice.

Joshua Feinstein, The Triumph of the Ordinary: Depictions of Daily Life in the East German Cinema, 1949-1989 (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)Leonie Naughton, Film Culture, Unification, and the "New" Germany (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002)