研究顯示，那些曾在大學(xué)或者別處參加過(guò)競(jìng)技體育活動(dòng)的女性管理者，會(huì)更喜歡雇用具有體育運(yùn)動(dòng)背景的人。??

幾乎所有的管理者都想雇用紀(jì)律性強(qiáng)、勇敢果斷和富有進(jìn)取心的人作為自己的員工。女性管理者也不例外。研究顯示，那些曾在大學(xué)或者別處參加過(guò)競(jìng)技體育活動(dòng)的女性管理者，會(huì)更喜歡雇用具有體育運(yùn)動(dòng)背景的人。

All managers want to hire people with discipline, determination, and drive. Women executives are no different. And according to study, women executives who once played competitive sports, in college or elsewhere, prefer to hire other people with athletics in their background.

該研究是由安永女運(yùn)動(dòng)員商業(yè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)發(fā)起進(jìn)行的。該組織共調(diào)查了來(lái)自5個(gè)國(guó)家的400多名女性管理者（其中20%是美國(guó)女性），這些人中有半數(shù)是高管級(jí)別，也就是說(shuō)她們都是某公司的CEO、CTO、COO或董事會(huì)成員。在這些女性高管中，大約有52%的人都曾在大學(xué)參加過(guò)體育運(yùn)動(dòng)；而只有3%的人從未參加過(guò)任何體育運(yùn)動(dòng)。

The study by EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW surveyed more than 400 female executives in five countries (20% were U.S. women). Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company. Of these top executives, over half (52%) played a sport at the college or university level. Only 3% did not participate in sports at any point in their lives.

3/4的女性高管表示，應(yīng)聘者的體育比賽經(jīng)歷會(huì)影響她們的雇用決策。因?yàn)樗齻冋J(rèn)為曾經(jīng)參加過(guò)體育比賽的人更容易成為優(yōu)秀的專業(yè)人士，這些人身上有一些共通的特質(zhì)，比如能夠信守承諾完成任務(wù)，更善于激勵(lì)團(tuán)隊(duì)等。“這些無(wú)形的能力是在課堂上學(xué)不到的”，安永全球公共政策副主席貝絲·瑪茨尼亞克（beth Brooke- Marciniak）說(shuō)。女性高管同樣也很重視在體育比賽中培養(yǎng)出來(lái)的紀(jì)律觀念，她們認(rèn)為這種紀(jì)律性會(huì)轉(zhuǎn)變成為一個(gè)人的決斷力和職業(yè)道德。

Three out of four of the C-suite women executives said that candidates’ involvement in sport influences their hiring decisions, because they believe people who have played sports make good professionals. These executives attribute participation in athletics to qualities like a commitment to?bringing projects to completion?and greater abilities in?motivating others. These intangible skills are hard to learn in a classroom, says beth Brooke-Marciniak, EY’s Global Vice Chair for Public Policy. The executive women also put a premium on the?discipline?honed by sports, which they see translating to a person’s determination and work ethic.

其實(shí)，更重要的是另外兩個(gè)優(yōu)勢(shì)：競(jìng)爭(zhēng)精神和團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作精神。這兩個(gè)特質(zhì)對(duì)于在當(dāng)下市場(chǎng)上獲得成功是至關(guān)重要的。奧運(yùn)冠軍、安永女運(yùn)動(dòng)員商業(yè)網(wǎng)絡(luò)顧問(wèn)唐娜·瓦羅納（Donna de Varona）是這樣說(shuō)的：

But even more important are two other strengths:?competitiveness?and?teamwork. Both are critical to success in today’s marketplace. Donna de Varona, Olympic Champion and adviser to EY’s Women Athletes Business Network, put it this way to me:

“如果你在參加某籃球隊(duì)選拔時(shí)，第一場(chǎng)比賽還沒(méi)打完就中途退出；或者你僅僅因?yàn)閭€(gè)人原因不喜歡某位出色的隊(duì)員，就不傳球給他；或者你不愿意花額外的時(shí)間來(lái)提高自己的弱項(xiàng)，那么你都不可能走得很遠(yuǎn)。體育會(huì)鍛煉一個(gè)人成功所需的各項(xiàng)素質(zhì)，這正是管理者都青睞于雇用體育健將的原因。高層管理者傾向于雇用擅長(zhǎng)運(yùn)動(dòng)的女性，因?yàn)樗麄兿嘈牛?dāng)壓力降臨在這些員工身上時(shí)她們不會(huì)輕易退縮?！?/p>

“If you try out for a basketball?team but quit in the middle of the first game, or if you choose not to pass the ball to your talented teammate because you don’t like her, or if you are unwilling to spend extra hours to work on a weakness, you aren’t going to get very far. Sports teaches fundamentals for success and that is why both men and women executives like to hire athletes. C-suite executives hire these women because they share a common bond and know when the pressure is on they will not be let down.”

美國(guó)教育法修正案第九條已經(jīng)通過(guò)了40多年，該條修正案強(qiáng)制美國(guó)高中要在女生體育運(yùn)動(dòng)方面投入與男生體育運(yùn)動(dòng)一樣多的經(jīng)費(fèi)。該修正案的支持者夢(mèng)想著有一天男女在參加體育賽事時(shí)也能夠平等。不過(guò)，在這一點(diǎn)上，我們?nèi)匀挥泻荛L(zhǎng)的路要走。貝西·史蒂文森（betsey Stevenson）通過(guò)分析美國(guó)的數(shù)據(jù)得出了這樣的結(jié)論：如果看中值，男學(xué)生中男運(yùn)動(dòng)員的比例，比女學(xué)生中女運(yùn)動(dòng)員的比例高出17%。實(shí)際上，據(jù)婦女體育基金會(huì)稱，在過(guò)去5年，高中男女生參與體育比賽的程度差異加劇。

It’s been over 40 years since Title IX passed, compelling American high schools to spend on women’s sports in equal amounts to their spending on men’s. Its supporters dreamed of the day that participation levels would also be equal. We still have a ways to go.?betsey Stevenson’s analysis?of national data shows that the median state has a 17 percentage point difference between the ratio of male athletes to male students and that ratio for girls. In fact, according to the Women’s Sports Foundation, the gap between male and female athletic participation at the high school level?has?grown?in the past five years.

當(dāng)女運(yùn)動(dòng)員開(kāi)始成為高管，并且青睞那些具備體育精神的應(yīng)聘者時(shí)，她們無(wú)疑傳達(dá)出了一個(gè)有價(jià)值的信號(hào)，那就是——參加體育運(yùn)動(dòng)不僅是個(gè)人選擇，它還能夠帶來(lái)許多切實(shí)的獎(jiǎng)賞。

When sportswomen become hiring executives, and favor candidates for the qualities that athletics engenders, they send a valuable signal that participation in sports is not only a right – it can offer many rewards.

那奈特·方達(dá)斯（Nanette Fondas）| 文

那奈特·方達(dá)斯是《The Custom-Fit Workplace》一書(shū)的聯(lián)合作者。

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