Barriers to women's occupational promotion to management levels

Jaefar Mamizade,Khadije Golabi

doi:10.5267/j.msl.2014.6.012

Abstract

This study examines the male and female employee’s ideas about the organizational barriers to women's occupational promotion to management level in the organization of Education and Training in Khuzestan province. In this regard, with study of identified population, hypothesis was formulated and questionnaires with a five-item Likert scale and method of Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient were adjusted. Questionnaires were distributed among 300 of employees, whose educations were beyond associate degree, including teaching and administrative staff. Due to incomplete or non-completion of questionnaires, statistical operations have been carried out on 288 questionnaires. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. The research method in this survey was descriptive in which all hypotheses, that had 0.05 level of significance, were confirmed. Finally, the results showed that there were relationships between institutional barriers and women's occupational promotion to management’s levels. Furthermore, female staff had higher evaluation of the effect of organizational barriers to women's occupational promotion to management’s levels than other group. Finally, practical suggestions and recommendations to promote women's occupation to management’s levels were presented in this paper.

Highlights

During the past two decades, there has been an increasing trend on rate of educated women
This study examines the male and female employee’s ideas about the organizational barriers to women's occupational promotion to management level in the organization of Education and Training in Khuzestan province
The statistical population of this research consists of all employees beyond associate degree who have served in various regions in Khuzestan province

Summary

Introduction

During the past two decades, there has been an increasing trend on rate of educated women. In a case of one factor, there was a consensus on it: 79% of female and the 90% of male staff believed that, lack of experience in general and executive management was a fundamental obstacle to women’s promotion They presented another study over the period 1996-2003, by examining 1000 companies in which women’s lack of experience in general or executive management, the informal women network; the stereotype of gender roles and lack of role models were the most important barriers to women’s occupational promotion. In another study at the national level, Zahedi (2001) investigated a thesis entitled “Promoting women's participation in management’s levels” The researcher conducted this comprehensive study with systematic approach, and considered the individual, organizational, and environmental dimensions in her study. Personality traits had the most influence in preventing women to promote to high levels of management

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