Abstract
The increasing women participation in the upper management level has been a comprehensive research study for women and career studies. Although only a few of them have had successfully broken the glass ceiling, they still have to struggle to keep up with the opposite gender. The purpose of the research study is to review past research studies on the glass ceiling syndrome, tiara syndrome, imposter syndrome, and queen bee barrier syndromes that commonly occur in women’s career progression and understand how it affects women’s career success. This paper reports the results of a literature review on four barrier syndromes in 45 combinations of research paper, books, magazine, thesis and discussion paper. Women need to have skills and ability in order to be leaders of upper management. The result of the study could provide a better understanding of the barriers that effects the women leaders in becoming successful. Thus, this research is conducted to gather and review the literature on the barrier syndromes and how it affects women’s success in their careers.
Highlights
In the new global economy, women have historically become a central issue for lack of access to the power structures of organisations, where experience has told them that connections to this power structure and the decision makers would enhance their position in organisations (Ilhaamie et al, 2014)
This paper aims to review past research in the year of 2002 until 2017 into these four barrier syndromes such as the glass ceiling syndrome, tiara syndrome, imposter syndrome, and queen bee syndrome on women leaders in upper-level management
This study had set out to review in detail available information on four common barrier syndromes such as the glass ceiling syndrome, tiara syndrome, imposter syndrome, and queen bee syndrome
Summary
In the new global economy, women have historically become a central issue for lack of access to the power structures of organisations, where experience has told them that connections to this power structure and the decision makers would enhance their position in organisations (Ilhaamie et al, 2014). In a study conducted by Azmi et al (2012) has shown that the majority of women population have felt the need for women‟s contribution to the economy by providing the opportunity to display women‟s talent and competence to senior management in order to acquire relevant information through informal networks that can enhance career success These rapid changes are having a severe effect on women as they have to face more significant barriers and need different strategies to overcome the isolation, stereotyping, and performance pressure in order to be successful (Akpinar-Sposito, 2013). This paper aims to review past research in the year of 2002 until 2017 into these four barrier syndromes such as the glass ceiling syndrome, tiara syndrome, imposter syndrome, and queen bee syndrome on women leaders in upper-level management
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