Abstract
Each day people make decisions regarding work-life balance, and these decisions impact many aspects of their lives, including career paths. In our article we point towards the relation between time and professional careers. There are more men than women in higher managerial positions and we inquire if time allocation matters when men and women choose to accept promotion or not. We start with a literature review regarding these issues, followed by empirical studies. The empirical studies have a twofold character. First, we conduct analysis of time-use data, and then we present the case study of managers in Aptiv Krakow Tech Center. As a result of the conducted studies, it seems that time is a constraint especially for women, although in terms of the stories of individual managers it is not evident as a universal barrier.
Highlights
DOES TIME ALLOCATION MATTER IN PROMOTION DECISIONS? – A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN MANAGERS IN APTIV KRAKOW TECH CENTER
We begin with a literature review regarding time, gender and managerial positions, and we turn to empirical studies, looking at time allocation in Poland disaggregating time-use data according to gender, age and level of education
The entry and participation of women in the labour market and other sectors of the economy depends on the time they allocate to unpaid household work
Summary
DOES TIME ALLOCATION MATTER IN PROMOTION DECISIONS? – A CASE STUDY OF WOMEN MANAGERS IN APTIV KRAKOW TECH CENTER. We begin with a literature review regarding time, gender and managerial positions, and we turn to empirical studies, looking at time allocation in Poland disaggregating time-use data according to gender, age and level of education This part is followed by a case study of women managers in Aptiv Krakow Tech Center. They did not find empirical support for the selectivity of female managers with respect to gendered preferences (hypothesis 2) Regarding such time constraints Brockmann et al conclude that “as long as pathways into leadership positions require a non-stop lifelong commitment to extra-long working hours and early career path-dependencies, many women with their higher appreciation of disposable time at younger ages will be scared away from these positions” (775). We turn to individual stories in the case study conducted in Aptiv Krakow Tech Center
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